The World - News from March 26, 1987
An American professor from Birzeit University in the Israeli-occupied West Bank went on trial on charges he incited anti-Israeli demonstrations, the army said. Roger Heacock, 44, of Philadelphia, denied the charges in an Israeli military court and said he was arrested when he inadvertently was caught up in a group of Palestinian women protesting conditions in Lebanon.
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