Wednesday, June 25, 1986

Social/Economic/Political

Occupied Palestine/Israel: Israeli President Chaim Herzog grants blanket amnesties to Shin Bet Security Service Head Avraham Shalom and three of his deputies (none of whom had been charged) for any crime they may have committed inconnection with the April 1984 beating deaths of 2 Palestinian bus hijackers and the alleged subsequent cover-up; Shalom resigns after all-night talks with senior cabinet ministers; P.M. Peres and F.M. Shamir oppose creation of commissionf inquiry to investigate the affair [WP 6/26; NYT 7/14, 7/15].