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DATE=7/17/98 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-235652 TITLE=ARGENTINA BOMBING (L ONLY) BYLINE=GEORGE MEEK DATELINE=RIO DE JANEIRO CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: RELATIVES OF THE 86 PEOPLE KILLED IN THE BOMBING OF THE JEWISH CULTURAL CENTER IN BUENOS AIRES FOUR YEARS AGO HAVE OBSERVED THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE ATTACK WITH A FRESH CALL FOR JUSTICE. WE HAVE DETAILS FROM V-O-A'S CORRESPONDENT GEORGE MEEK IN OUR SOUTH AMERICA BUREAU. TEXT: DEMONSTRATORS LIT 86 CANDLES IN FRONT OF THE JEWISH CULTURAL CENTER IN MEMORY OF LOVED ONES WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE STILL-UNPUNISHED ATTACK THAT OCCURRED FOUR YEARS AGO SATURDAY. ONE VICTIM'S MOTHER, SOFIA GUTERMAN, SAID AUTHORITIES ARE INSULTING THE DEAD BY INEPT PROSECUTION OF THE CASE. THE HEAD OF ARGENTINE JEWISH ASSOCIATIONS, RUBEN BERAJA, SAYS THE COMMUNITY WANTS JUSTICE,NOT VENGEANCE. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, WHO WERE BOOED DURING LAST YEAR'S ANNIVERSARY OBSERVANCE OF THE ATTACK, DID NOT TAKE PART IN IT THIS YEAR. THE UNITED STATES, ISRAEL, AND JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS IN ARGENTINA ACCUSE PRO-IRANI MILITANTS OF THE ATTACK ON THE CULTURAL CENTER AND THE BOMBING OF THE ISRAELI EMBASSY IN BUENOS AIRES IN 1992, WHICH KILLED 29 PEOPLE. IRAN HAS REPEATEDLY DENIED INVOLVEMENT IN BOTH INCIDENTS, AND SAYS ARGENTINA HAS BEEN UNDULY INFLUENCED BY PRESSURE FROM THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL IN THE CASE. DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN ARGENTINA AND IRAN WERE SHARPLY CUT BACK TWO MONTHS AGO FOLLOWING THE ARREST OF EIGHT IRANIANS SUSPECTED OF INVOLVEMENT IN THE BOMB ATTACK ON THE CULTURAL CENTER. THE SUSPECTS SAID THE FORMER CULTURAL ATTACHE OF THE IRANI EMBASSY IN BUENOS AIRES, MOHSSEN RABBANI, WAS INVOLVED IN PLANNING THE BOMBING. HE WAS EXPELLED FROM ARGENTINA IN DECEMBER. A FORMER IRANIAN SPY LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES AS A POLITICAL REFUGEE, MANOUCHER MOATAMER, HAS ALSO IMPLICATED MR. RABBANI. NEB/GM/PT 17-Jul-98 5:14 PM EDT (2114 UTC) NNNN Source: Voice of America .