Leftists in turkey kill manager of Israeli airline
| Istanbul
Leftist gunmen firing automatic rifles killed the manager of the Turkish office of El Al, the Israeli airline, as he drove home from work, police said Thursday. The "Marxist-Leninist Armed Propaganda Group" later claimed responsibility for the killing Wednesday night of Avraham Elazar and accused him of having been a secret agent. The same leftist group also claimed responsibility for the murders of four American servicemen in Istanbul Dec. 14.