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- WORLD, Page 31World NotesBRITAIN'Tis the Season To Plant a Bomb
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- Christmas comes but once a year -- for which Londoners can be
- thankful, since the Irish Republican Army has chosen to mark the
- season with terrorist attacks. Last week a bomb exploded at
- London's Clapham Junction, the country's busiest railway
- intersection. No one was injured, but an estimated 500,000
- commuters were affected and the city's businesses could lose
- around $90 million.
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- Since Dec. 1, the I.R.A. has set off 25 fire bombs across
- the country in a campaign of economic sabotage. Although no one
- has yet been hurt, one device went off at London's National
- Gallery.
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- In Northern Ireland the activities of the I.R.A. and
- Protestant extremists have been more lethal, taking 89 lives
- this year. But as a government spokesman explained, "It doesn't
- make news to bomb in Northern Ireland. Fire bombs in London at
- Christmas cause lots of publicity."
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