May 27, 1990

Mikhail Gorbachev sends letter to Arab summit to begin 5/28 in Baghdad [BADS 5/28 in FBIS 5/29].

Charter flights carrying 500 Soviet Jews a week to Israel from Warsaw will begin next month, according to Polish officials [NYT 5/30].

Israeli court sentences 41-year-old Jewish man to 3 years in prison for desecrating c.250 graves at Haifa cemetery. 2d man charged in incident is undergoing psychiatric examination [NYT, WT 5/28; MET 6/5].