The World - News from Aug. 12, 1986
Seven more agents of Shin Bet, the Israeli secret service, are seeking presidential pardons in the 1984 killings of two captured Palestinian bus hijackers, President Chaim Herzog’s office said. Three Shin Bet men, among them the former chief, have already been pardoned. It could not be determined what role any of the seven may have played in the incident, in which interrogators beat to death two of the terrorists who had hijacked the bus and held 35 Israelis hostage. A police investigation into the killings has begun.
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