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- WORLD, Page 54World NotesTHE GERMANYSAlarming Aftermath
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- On April 5, 1986, an 11-lb. bomb killed two U.S. servicemen
- and injured 230 people in the La Belle discotheque in West
- Berlin. Ten days later, blaming Libya, President Reagan ordered
- a U.S. bombing raid on Tripoli. Yet investigators were never
- able to prove conclusively that Libya was behind the attack.
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- Now a joint task force set up by the two Germanys to
- investigate terrorist activities by East Germany's ousted
- communist government is also examining a suspected Libyan
- connection. A Palestinian involved in the bombing is reportedly
- imprisoned for other charges in West Berlin. The East Germans
- are said to have granted visas to a known Libyan hit man and
- his Palestinian accomplices even though they knew the Libyans
- planned a bombing.
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- Libyan terrorists were not the only ones welcome. East
- German Interior Minister Peter-Michael Diestel charged last
- week that the infamous "Carlos," who was responsible for the
- 1975 attack on the OPEC ministers in Vienna, was a frequent
- visitor. Diestel believes he has enough evidence to bring a
- case soon against former East German leader Erich Honecker for
- aiding the terrorists.
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