• Short Summary

    Storyline (see Reuters): Egypt today (19 Apr) handed over the bodies of nine Israeli soldiers killed in the Yom Kippur war, and two Israeli spies.

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    Buses carrying prisoners-??? on bus - prisoners off (one declines to go to Egypt & is led ??? by Israeli MPs)



    UN troops



    Coffins laid out.



    Brief ceremony with Egyptians ??? playing 'Lost Post'



    Robin, Panes, Allons & ??? at later ceremony



    Panes in English talks about exchange




    Initials



    Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved

    Background: Storyline (see Reuters): Egypt today (19 Apr) handed over the bodies of nine Israeli soldiers killed in the Yom Kippur war, and two Israeli spies. The handover, which followed lengthy negotiation through the Rec Cro, the United Nations and the United States, took place in Sinai. In returns, Israel has handed Egypt 58 Arabs who were being held in Israeli gaols. The return of the bodies of the nine soldiers leave ten israeli soldiers unaccounted for after the war. The two spies (names on Reuters) part in an unsuccessful plot known since then as the Lavon Affair, after the Israeli Defence Minister of the time, Pinhas Lavon (full info reuter)

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    Film ID:
    VLVADO3552M5J46C91OOLAIZJT7FE
    Media URN:
    VLVADO3552M5J46C91OOLAIZJT7FE
    Group:
    Reuters - Source to be Verified
    Archive:
    Reuters
    Issue Date:
    19/04/1977
    Sound:
    Unknown
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Colour
    Duration:
    00:01:38:00
    Time in/Out:
    /
    Canister:
    N/A

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