The World - News from June 24, 1988

A severed cable caused a power failure that blacked out much of Israel and the occupied territories, stopping factory production, causing traffic snarls and disrupting telephone and other communications. Utility officials ruled out sabotage. In Arab East Jerusalem, three Israeli children returning from a school hike were injured by flying glass when their bus was stoned by Palestinian high school girls, a police spokesman said. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said that fires blamed on Arab arsonists and the killing of a Jewish farmer this week “prove we stand before a wild and murderous phenomenon, the fruit of fanatical hatred that seeks the death of all citizens of Israel.”