The World - News from Aug. 2, 1985
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A Palestinian sentenced to life in prison after a long extradition battle but later freed in a prisoner swap was rearrested and held without charges in “administrative detention” by the Israeli army. Ziad abu Eain fled to Chicago, where he had relatives, after he was accused of a 1979 bombing that killed three people and wounded 30. Extradited to Israel, he was convicted and sentenced to prison. An army spokesman said that since his release in a prisoner trade in May, he has participated in “propaganda and incitement activities.”
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