TOUAME STILL HELD IN ISRAELI JAIL
The fifteen-day sentence given the Israeli Arab student leader Khalil Touame has been extended for another fifteen days. Touame, a member of the Israeli Socialist Organization [ISO] and a wellknown Arab student leader, was arbitrarily arrested on January 8 [see World Outlook, February 2, 1968]; his imprisonment comes in a wave of repression against the Arab population of Israel and the occupied territories. Accused of hiding a re-
sistance leader, he has been denied bail.
Touame is threatened with a trial
before a military court, where the ac-
cused have few legal rights and from
which a heavy sentence may be expected.
Such prominent figures as Bertrand
Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre have already
responded to appeals for worldwide sup-
port in fighting this victimization.