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Sirhan Appeals to World For a 'Fair Trial' for His Son From tie.4 Oloontchee horn in and had strained by Arab and Jewish AMMAN, Jordan, June 18- painful memories of the 1948 workmen from attacking the Bishara Sirhan. father of the Palestine war. As a child, he Jewish project manager with alleged assassin of Sen. Rob- said, his son had seen an Iron saw following a dis- ert P. , appealed to killed by Israeli terrorists and agreement. Pope Paul VI and the consci- had seen a woman neighbor ence of the world today to se- stabbed by an Israeli. Jordanian Lawyers cure a fair trial for his son, From Jerusalem, Yuvai Offer to Aid Sirhan Sirhan Sirhan. Etizur gave this report en , June 18 At a press conference here, the Sirhan family in a ape- (UPI)—The Public Defender's Bishara Sirhan said he Is con- dispatch to The Washington Office acknowledged receiving vinced that his son had not Post: a communication from Jorda- been told by any group to kill Kennedy, but had been pro- Sirhan used to discipline his nian lawyers offering to assist voked by the Senator's "anti- sons with punishment border- In the defense of Sirhan Bis- Arab" speeches. ing on torture, according to hare Sirhan, accused assassin Sirhan, 55, came here from Mrs. Laila Said, Who remem- of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. bers the Sirhans as an un- his home in Israeli-occupied Richard S. Buckley said his territory north of Jerusalem happy family. Other former to draw money from his Jorda- neighbors corroborated her ac- office would not object to Jor- nian bank account. He may go count. danian lawyers trying the to the United States for his Mrs. Said said the father case, if they qualified legally son's trial. - once beat one of his sons until tp practice in California. But Sirhan said he regrets the the boy was unconscious, and death of "Kennedy the human chased away neighbors who Buckley said the Public De- being," but added that "Bob sought to intervene. fender would not share the de- Kennedy had a double person- She said the Sirhan daugh- fense responsibility. ality . . ." ter, who has since died in the "We either control the case United States, Was often "I can say that I do not re- or we get out. This offer was gret his death as Kennedy the locked in her room, and American p hislan," the friends would bring food to to assist us, and we cannot ac- father said. He charged that her. At one time, the elder Sir- cept," he said. "It's all up to the Senator's "unbalanced" ban chained his daughter to Sirhan." support of Israel in his presi- the window bars. The defendant's mother, dential campaign statements Akiva Azulaia, Jerusalem Mary Sirhan, moved back into "provoked the sensitive feel- Sanitation Department offi- her home in Pasadena yester- ings of Sirhan, who had suf- cial, said that in 1936 he day under police protection.. fered much from the Jews." worked with Sirhan in laying She and a brother of the ac- He said his son had been pipe, and Sirhan had to be re- cused had been under heavy guard In a nearby apartment. Mrs. Sirhan said she had talked with Public Defender Wilbur Littlefield about seeing her son. Thus far she has not visited him, she said.