European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Thes lbs vol. 50, no. 322 350 ?3sg3baiga3bbahbegm�mb�j monday March 2,1992 d 8693 Aira says it planted bomb third defused just hours before soccer match London a the Irish Republican army claimed responsibility sunday for planting three bombs in the capital in 48 hours and said it would continue its British Mainland Campaign of violence leading up to the general election. The Ira in a statement issued in Belfast said it wanted to Force the Issue of Northern Ireland onto the political Agenda ahead of the election which must be held by july. But Home Secretary Kenneth Baker the Cabinet minister responsible for Law and order told London weekend television news that the Ira would not disrupt the electoral process. A an election is a time when there is a clash of ideas of policies and of arguments a Baker said. A it has nothing to do with bombs and earlier sunday an explosives expert defused a device found in a North London train station hours before thousands of fans were expected to arrive for an important soccer match a Scotland Yard spokesman said. The device was spotted by a member of the Public at 9 20 . At British rails White Hart Lane station a police spokesman said requesting anonymity. A Telephone warning about the device was received about an hour later police said. The station is near the Tottenham hotspur soccer Field where a semifinal match was scheduled to begin at 3 30 . Before 30,000 spectators. An officer from Scotland Yards Antiterrorist squad defused the device within an hour the spokesman said refusing to provide additional details about the warning or the device. The televised soccer game was delayed by an hour after police received a Telephone warning of a device in the stadium. Fans waited outside the stadium As officers and sniffer dogs searched the area but nothing was found. A bomb containing about 2 pounds of explosives went off outside a government prosecutors office saturday evening shattering windows of the four Story de see Ira on Page 2slide hits cafe in Jerusalem leaves 23 dead Jerusalem apr Arab and israeli Rescue workers pulled the last of 23 bodies from a collapsed Arab cafe sunday digging through mud Stone and skeletons from a Hillside cemetery whose collapse onto the building was triggered by a mudslide. Some 22 others were Hurt police said. The cafe was across from the walled old City in Arab East Jerusalem. Stores in the surrounding Arab business Section closed to mourn the victims All palestinians. The City a mayor Teddy Kollek described saturdays Accident As the City a worst building calamity saying he did a not recall a disaster like this Ever in the Rescue Effort resulted from a rare show of jew ish Arab cooperation in this City torn by decades of the Arab israeli conflict. Arabs army Rescue workers and jews in Skullcap sifted through rubble Side by Side in search of survivors. But tension surfaced when Arab bystanders tried to Block israeli ambulances from moving victims to israeli hospitals. Israeli police also had to hold Back frantic palestinians who surged Forward to try to identify loved ones each time a body was brought out. City Engineer Eli see cafe on Page 2 police push Back East Jerusalem residents near the Paradise Garden cafe inundated by a mudslide saturday. Navy ships in Gulf ready to enforce u. N. Actions on Iraq Admiral says we Are not a hollow Force. We Are not a Bluff. Our efforts Are a continuing series of measures trying to Force Iraq s compliance rear . Raynor a. K. Taylor Dubai United Arab emirates apr the 25 . Navy ships in the persian Gulf Are prepared if military action should be ordered to enforce . Demands that Iraq destroy its weapons of mass destruction a . Commander said sunday. A we Are not a hollow Force. We Are not a Bluff a said rear . Raynor . Taylor commander of . Naval forces Central come. A your efforts Are a continuing series of measures trying to Force iraqis a a we re flying planes up and Down the Gulf every Day to maintain our readiness a he said. A we have no tasks orders at the moment but we could get additional tasks at any the . Naval presence in the Region includes the aircraft Carrier America and its Battle group currently in the red sea and an amphibious Force of five vessels on patrol within the Gulf. Taylor whose command ship la Salle was making a port Call at Dubai in the Southern Gulf would not make predictions about possible Allied military action against Iraq in the face of Saddam Hussein a refusal to destroy missile production facilities. Last week the . Security Council warned Iraq that it faced a serious Conse 3uences�?� by refusing to comply with the destruction of the weapons As ordered under the persian Gulf War cease fire resolutions. The american warships backed by the navies of other members of the coalition that waged the War Are still monitoring the . Blockade of Iraq. They Are concentrating on the red sea near the jordanian port of Aqaba from where goods can be shipped Overland to Iraq. At present Iraq has no Trade through the Gulf. Taylor said the multinational intercept see Navy on Page 2democrats get vicious in debate from wire reports a week of attack politics in the democratic presidential contest boiled Over saturday in Denver during an angry debate in which former Massachusetts sen. Paul Tsongas and Arkansas gov. Bill Clinton traded personal insults Over character and policy. The 90-minute encounter turned bitter when Clinton challenged Tsongas support of nuclear Power triggering a series of exchanges that caused the two rivals for the nomination to explode in fury at each other. A no one can argue with you see debate on Page 2
