The World - News from June 6, 1989

Three Jewish settlers, sentenced to life in prison for a 1983 attack in the West Bank that left four Arabs dead and 33 wounded, had their sentences reduced by President Chaim Herzog. A spokesman for Herzog said the settlers will have to serve 10 years. It was the third time Herzog has reduced their sentences since they were convicted in 1985. The three, West Bank settlers Menachem Livni, Uzi Sharbaf and Shaul Nir, were members of a “Jewish underground” guerrilla group that maimed two West Bank Arab mayors in a 1980 bombing, planted bombs on 16 Arabs buses and plotted to destroy Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa mosque.