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- Subject: NEWS:Uruguay:Explosions During Police Strike/ED-LP
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- from El Diario La Prensa 11/20/92
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- EXPLOSIONS IN MONTEVIDEO DURING POLICE STRIKE
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- On Thursday, November 19, Uruguayan police confirmed that
- there had been at attack with a fragmentation bomb near the house
- of Congress where the possibility of an increase in police
- salaries was being debated. Another bomb exploded near a
- monument. Those attacks were in addition to three others which
- had taken place during the night.
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- A grenade was thrown at a military unit from a passing
- automobile, and police received reports of explosions in a park
- and near the United States embassy. However an investigation did
- not reveal any evidence of those explosions.
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- Urugayan police have been on strike since Monday, November
- 15. Therefore President Luis Alberto Lacalle ordered the army to
- patrol the streets. At least 20 soldiers were arrested for
- refusing to submit to the order.
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- According to Reuter's new sagency the police strike may be
- near an end, as it appears the congress will approve a salary
- increase. However, the proposal has to be approved by the
- Chamber of Deputies as well. The strikers have received support
- from various sectors of society, among them the teachers' union
- and the former Tupamaros guerrillas, legalized as a political
- party since 1985. (NOTIMEX )
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- translated by Toby Mailman, NY Transfer News
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