The World - News from Sept. 29, 1988

Israeli troops barred supporters of American-born legislator Meir Kahane from holding his anti-Arab party’s election convention in the West Bank. Kahane, a rabbi whose Kach Party has called for the expulsion of all Arabs from Israel and the occupied territories, had scheduled his election convention for the Arab city of Hebron despite an army order banning the meeting. Kahane led two buses and a dozen cars and vans on a three-hour odyssey seeking a back road to the town. The caravan, which drew rocks from residents in several Arab villages, was stopped by an army patrol seven miles south of Jerusalem.