The World - News from Dec. 8, 1985
Three men who have admitted killing three Israelis aboard a yacht in Cyprus last September acted out of moral duty to the Palestinian cause, their defense counsel argued. Haris Solomindes told a court in Nicosia that the men acted on reasonable evidence that the Israelis, two men and a woman, were intelligence agents responsible for the capture of Palestinian commandos by the Israeli navy. Israel has said they were innocent tourists. The court said it will hand down verdicts in the case Dec. 13.
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