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MONDAY, MARCH 9,1987 U Metropolitan Washington (See Box on A2)
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,In Wake of Race Disturbance
                                     By Morris S. Thompson
                           Washington Poit Staff Writer
TAMPA-This is "the next great city," local
boosters say as they point to bustling new hotels
and office buildings downtown and sleek new
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Shann"r
Rejects
Wobe Calls
Israeli Leader Says
Pollard Spy Case
Is 'Closed' Affair
                                     By Glenn Frankel
                         Washington Post Foreign Service
JERUSALEM, March 8-Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir, in his first
public comments on last week's
sentencing of former U.S. Navy
intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay
Pollard for spying for Israel, today
rejected calls for a government in-
quiry into the case.
"For us, this painful affair is
closed," Shamir said.
Shamir refused 'to allow discus-
sion of the matter in the full Cabinet
today, instead referring it to the
10-member "inner cabinet" and ef-
fectively shutting off debate for the
time being on how Israel should
cope with what some politicians
here contend is the most difficult
moment in the history of Israeli-
U.S. relations.
"I don't think we need a special
committee for investigations be
cause we know all the details" con-
cerning the case, Shamir said after
the Cabinet meeting. "We know
what happened, and we did every-
thing [to see] that it will not happen
again."
Three Cabinet ministers pre-
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sented a formal request for a gov-
ernment inquiry, which Shamir and



his two most senior coalition part-
ners, Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres, who is also vice prime min-
ister, and Defense Minister Yitzhak
Rabin, are said to oppose firmly.
The inner cabinet is next scheduled
to meet on Wednesday.
Officials here had hoped that the
Pollard affair had ended last Wed-
nesday when the former U.S. Navy
employe was given a life term and
his wife, Anne Henderson-Pollard,
received two concurrent five-year
sentences from a federal judge in
Washington.
But Israel compounded its em-
barrassment and prolonged the af-
fair by awarding the command of
the country's second-largest air
base to Pollard's alleged recruiter
and first spy handler, Air Force Col.
Aviem Sella-a move disclosed ear-
lier last week. Sella was indicted in,
Washington last week for his role in
the affair.
                      . Official sources said Israel's three
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