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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least eight other Paris bombings over the past nine months. The attacks have left three people dead and more than 100 wounded. Just a few days before the post office tragedy, the organization took responsibility for planting a 4-lb. bomb aboard a rush-hour commuter train. The device was discovered by a passenger and successfully disarmed...
After last week's bombings, any prospects that Abdallah might get out of prison soon dimmed sharply. French public opinion is strongly behind Chirac's call for a war on terrorism. Meanwhile, Paris was bracing for more attacks. After the commuter-train bomb was found, an additional 800 national riot police were assigned to the capital, bringing to 3,300 the number of extra policemen stationed there since February. Reminding the public that police reinforcements alone were not enough to stop the terrorists, Interior Minister Pasqua called on the entire population to "transform themselves into a vast host of vigilant...
Customs officials will check the bags at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport, where almost all diplomatic mail arrives as air freight. Eventually, provisions will be made to inspect pouches arriving by sea, train or automobile from third countries. The metal detectors, however, have one major flaw: they cannot detect whether any plastic explosives are packed in the diplomatic pouches...
...mourners determined to bury their dead. Militant black youths roamed the sprawling township outside Johannesburg, enforcing a work stoppage that had been called to honor the 24 Sowetans felled a week earlier by police gunfire. Wielding sjamboks, or plastic whips, the young radicals chased commuters from bus stops and train stations and pelted moving vehicles with rocks. One bus was halted and burned on the spot. Security forces moved in rapidly, spraying the streets with tear gas. By 10 a.m., thousands of blacks had congregated outside the locked gates of Jabavu Stadium for the funeral services. Their prayers...
...early-morning hours, the radical black youths known as comrades began their violent patrols at commuter platforms. At the Phomolong station, a burst of gunfire was believed to have claimed as many as three lives, and a woman chased by sjambok-swinging youths fell beneath a moving train and was killed. One unconfirmed report said three youths were shot by four men whose car they had tried to force from the highway leading from the township. The unrest forced most people to abide by the work stoppage. In Soweto, road traffic halted and shops remained closed. The Labor Monitoring Group...