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From AP and UPI
BELFAST, Northern Ireland-IRA
guerrillas set off a 1,000-pound land
mine beneath an armored troop carrier
yesterday, kiliing all five British
soldiers aboard in a huge explosion
near the home of IRA hunger striker
Raymond McCreesh.
The blast was the worst single attack
against the British army in Northern
Ireland since 1979 and the first fatal at-
tack against British soldiers since IRA
hunger striker Bobby Sands died May 5.
WITHIN HOURS, mobs of Roman
Catholic rioters took to the streets of
Belfast and Londonderry, hijacking
buses and setting fires. In Roman
Catholic West Belfast, a bus was
hijacked, emptied of its passengers and
set on fire, Police said.
The attack heightened tension
throughout the province as McCreesh
and another hunger striker Patrick
O'Hara, both 24, entered the 59th day of
their fast to death to press demands for
political prisoner status. McCreesh was
said to be in a semicoma and was ex-
pected to die this week.
A statement issued by the Republican
press center in Belfast on behalf of the
outlawed Irish Republican Army's
South Armagh brigade said, "The IRA
claims responsibility for the land mine
attack."
"BRITISH soldiers should realize
that the English public and the English
politicians do not give a damn about
their lives," the statement said. "You
are fighting a war which you cannot
win.
Guerrillas hiding on a wooded hillside
set off the explosives, which were plan-
ted in a drainage culvert near a bridge
that carries the Belfast-to-Dublin
railway line, the army said. An IRA
statement said 1,000 pounds of ex-
plosives were used and the land nine-
like device was detonated by remote-
control wire as the six-wheeled, 10-ton
Saracen personnel carrier passed over.
The known death toll in the 11%12 years
of sectarian bloodshed is at least 2,189,
including 38 this year. The British ar-
my, which has more than 11,800 troops
serving here, has now lost 342 regulars,
plus 112 members of the locally
recruited Ulster Defense Regiment.
Bomb found at U.N.
as threats continue
NEW YORK (UPI)-A fake bomb
was found at the United Nations and
new bomb threat forced the evacuation
of the 71-story Chrysler Building
yesterday in the fourth day of a New
York City terror spree that has killed
one man and frightened thousands of
tourists, commuters and office
workers.
Five bombs-all believed planted by
Puerto Rican nationalists-have been
found since Saturday. Bomb. threats
have numbered in the hundreds and
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MAYOR EDWARD Koch, who has
labeled the bombers "madmen" who
should be executed, urged residents to
stay calm.
He vowed the police would "protect
the people in this city" and said his ad-
ministration had as its "highest
priority" the apprehension lf the
"scum" responsible for the reign of
terror.
Police, who found two live bombs and
tracked hundreds of threats from
cranks Monday, said they had received
two dozen bomb threats by noon
yesterday.
ONE BOMB threat forced office
workers in the landmark Chrysler
Building on East 42nd Street to leave
their jobs, another caused a brief panic
at Penn Station at the Long Island Rail
Road, while a "ticking package"
caused travelers to leave the Eastern
Airline terminal at Newart Airport.
The Puerto Rican Armed Resistance
claimed responsibility for the Kennedy
airport blast, two other bombs found at
Kennedy and two more mailed
pipebombs that were found and defused
at the U.S. Mission to the United
Nations and the Honduran Consulate.
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Compiled frm Associated Press and
United Press International reports
Pole wants flight to U.S.,
threatens to bomb embassy
WARSAW, Poland - A Polish citizen demanding a flight to the United
States threatened yesterday to blow up the U.S. Embassy but was over-
powered by police en route to the airport.
The bomb proved to be a fake, but the embassy was evacuated for an hour.
Stanislaw Kosciuch, 39, wearing a crash helmet and walking with a crutch,
was carrying an attache case he said was filled with over 6 pounds of
dynamite wired to explode.
"I think he was unable to cope with the fact that he was on a small
disability pension and there was rationing of meat and sugar," said consular
officer Nick Lauderdale.
"He wanted to go to the U.S.to work on a farm. He was convinced that we
could get him on a plane and out of the country without a passport," Lauder-
dale said.
U.S. ships with nuclear
weapons violate Japan law
TOKYO - Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki grappled yesterday with a new
foreign policy crisis over a report by a former U.S. ambassador that U.S.
ships bearing nuclear weapons have regularly visited iapan. Investors, up-
set by the controversy, dealt the Tokyo market one of its worst setbacks
ever.
In 1968, Japan, target of history's only nuclear attack, banned production,
maintenance or introduction of nuclear weapons on its territory.
Local officials told the U.S. Navy to cancel a good will port call by three
ships later this month because of the nuclear controversy.
One of the three vessels, the USS Waddell, was among U.S. ships-that
Japanese fishermen claim sliced through fishing nets last Friday.
U.S. officials countered the alleged damage most likely was done by a
Soviet cruiser shadowing the convoy. But the Soviets insisted either
American or Japanese ships were at fault.
Customers locked out of
failed savings & loan bank
CHICAGO. - Passbook customers were turned away yesterday at the
locked doors of a small Southwest Side savings bank whose failure has for-
ced the federal government to step in and repay depositors for the first time
insa decade.
Some official said the failure was evidence of the extent to which high in-
terest rates are pinching the nation's savings and loan institutions.
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. director Brent Beesley said
Economy Savings & Loan had been speculating in Government National
Mortgage Association securities, a practice he said is "very uncommon and
very dangerous" for savings institutions. "It can be referred to as interest
rate roulette," he said.
Beesley said the bank's doors would remain closed until officials finished
an inventory of accounts.
Deposits up to $100,000 are protected by insurance that guarantees
recovery, plus interest, officials said.
"We hope to start issuing checks to depositors by this weekend, although it
is Memorial Day weekend," he said.
Traveler cheeks worth 1.5
million stolen in Australia
SYDNEY, Austrialia - American Express checks worth $1.5 million have
been stolen from a Sydney post office, police said.
They said the checks were in U.S., British, West German and Swiss
currencies and were destined for banks in New Zealand and Australia.
They were unsigned and would be easy to cash, police said. The theft oc-
curred May 14 and was reported Monday.
Family of slain officer
sues Saginaw police
BAY CITY, Michigan - The family of a former probation officer has filed a
$25 million lawsuit against the city of Saginaw and its police chief, claiming
the officer was the victim of a "cold-blooded execution, conspiracy and
cover-up" by Saginaw police officials.
Attorney William Street filed the suit Monday in U.S. District Court at Bay
City on behalf of the family of Oliver "Bruce" Moorer. He said the suit was
filed to ensure a full and fair accounting of responsibility for Moorer's death.
Moorer, 41, was fatally shot April 25 by Saginaw police officers who were
searching for marijuana at his home, police said.
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