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- <text id=89TT2545>
- <title>
- Oct. 02, 1989: World Notes:Britain
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Oct. 02, 1989 A Day In The Life Of China
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 27
- World Notes
- BRITAIN
- The Day the Music Died
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The three-story building near the Kent port of Deal in
- southeastern England housed young recruits, some only 16 years
- old, who were training for the famed Royal Marines marching
- band. Last week their music was silenced in a deafening
- explosion that leveled one of the barracks and rattled houses
- within a two-mile radius. The toll: ten dead, 22 injured.
- British Defense Secretary Tom King called the blast an
- "appalling outrage against young army bandsmen who work for
- charity and who have given great enjoyment to millions across
- the country."
- </p>
- <p> The Irish Republican Army immediately claimed
- responsibility for the bombing. In a statement that was released
- in Dublin, the I.R.A. noted that British Prime Minister Margaret
- Thatcher had "visited occupied Ireland with a message of war
- when we want peace. Now we in turn have visited the Royal
- Marines in Kent." Two weeks ago, the Prime Minister had toured
- Northern Ireland and praised the Ulster Defense Regiment,
- calling it a "very, very, very brave group of men." The U.D.R.
- has been accused of leaking names of I.R.A. suspects to
- Protestant assassins.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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