About sixty Hebronites, mostly yeshiva students, visited Hebron yesterday for the dedication of the tombstones of the victims of the massacre and also for the burial of the clothing and other blood-soaked effects left in houses since the massacre. The visitors were not allowed to visit the Cave of Machpelah because police superintendent Lamont was unable to communicate with headquarters in Jerusalem regarding a police escort.
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