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rie se , . . ., . i , . : . wo . ‘ 4 ; " . . , +e . is rF * Ae! f) tat MPR L Fe a ter & yy, ERNISTS ACTT RLEGTION DRIY Former Terrorist Group, Now . 'sKnown .as ‘The Fighters,” z: Pushes Israeli Campaign ‘ By GENE CUREIVAN ” gpectat to Tax New Yor TDs. ¢ TEL AVIV, Israel, Jan. .14—A battle of election posters has be- gun in Israel, offsetting the peace- ful calm-of the cease-fire. The fmost agegréasive of the’ poster pasters is the erstwhile terrorist Stern Group, which now is above round and known simply as “The Fighters.” ; : - This political organization is now legal, resp@table ‘and law- abiding, gut not fully aban- doned its agegr#psiveness if its Yaanner of post election mate- vial can be used as a Criterion. its flying squads of poster pasters think nothing of plastering Stern- ist material over any opposition that may be on display, and they are*particularly fond of main street show windows. Mapam, Mapai or any of the other election parties may think they have found a conspicuous place for their posters, but before dong they are blotted out by The Fighters. The others retaliate, ‘with the result that the battle of the posters becomes a_ twenty- four-hour engagement. — _. The Fighters’ ‘list. of candidates for seats in the 120-man ‘Con- atituent Assembly is one of the atrangest ever presented to an jelectorate. Of the twelve can- didates, six are in prison, four are in hiding and two are se 2 in Army. Under the law,jif any of Those now ‘in prison are Hected, must be freed unless} other- decreed by the Constituent » Their leading candidate ig Na- SMhe tharge does not include an tion for the murder ore _ e@ Nations Mediator Count ‘ tte, s crime for whi branch of the iP was believed responsib’ ich & . When the Count was murdered, an organization known asthe “Father- tand Front” claimed “credit” for tt. Friedman-Yellin has persistently ,@enied that the Fatherland Front * ‘aves a part of the Stern Group. _ Also in Acre Prison with Fried- iman-Yellin and Shmulevits . is ‘Bheikh Youssef Abu Gosh, whose ‘band of Arabs at a town named for him near, Jerusalem worked awith the Stern Group in many vanti-British attacks. The -town of ‘Abu Gosh, on the Jerusalem-Tel ', &viv road, is one of the few large Arab villages Jeft intact during the war becaus¢ Its inhabitants never #ired a shot against the Israelis. # are still there, ving normal en, a total ; Another interesting candidate fwhose whereabouts are unknown + at the moment is Guela Cohen, %3- jyear-old comely Yemenite who used Ito conduct illicit Stern Group ra- + dio broadcasts. in English. She ‘taunted the British with Stern Group intelligence reports that must have worried them. She was arrested while making a broadcast from a mobile -station virtually next door to the central police sta- tion here, but escaped from a Jeru- salem prison ward. | . ; _ he eere’ , Present election : s, spite everything, we J in the open.” A new si , 4c0 up in a few days will mba SG ct us to remind [British Hor- | Secretary] Bevin we are NOT RECORDHD ra 83 MAR 17 1989, °F than Friedman-Yellin, who con- . ‘ducted terroristic activities against the British sinc 1942, when Abra- ham Stern, founder of the group, was killed by the British here *while being arrested. Friedman- } Yellin is on trial, along with his 1 This is a clipping from ‘ page _____of the . 4 New York Times for e a tekst oN - former alde-de-camp, | Nathan \\ 2'ea> c | . Shm vr having e rea at ye acts of terforiam. = \y ALL INivns Clipped at the Seat of ent Rac 3 a A cr