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Bomb explodes in London
at British Airways office
LONDON (AP) — A predawn
bomb blast damaged a British
Airways office and other stores
on London's busiest shopping
street Thursday, spraying glass
into the street and igniting a
fire. One passer-by was treated
for shock.
American Airlines and
American Express both have
counters in the office, but
Scotland Yard spokesman
Philip Powell said British Air
ways appeared to be the target.
“If it had gone off after 9.
a.m.. for instance, there would
have been an awful lot of people
about and injuries to people
would have been quite horren
dous because there were large
pieces of glass littering the
streets.” Powell said.
Deputy Home Secretary Ciles
Shaw told the House of Com
mons there was no information
linking the blast with Libya,
which has vowed revenge
against Britain and the United
States for the l I.S. air raid on Li
byan cities April 15. Britain ap
proved the use of ILS. planes
hased in England for the raid.
Scotland Yard said a number
of callers telephoned police and
news media to claim respon
sibilitv for the bombing, but the
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Yard refused to give details of
the tails.
Press Association. Britain’s
domestic news agency, said it
received calls from the Scottish
National Liberation Army,
which is campaigning for an in
dependent Scotland, and the
Angry Brigade, an anarchist
group that said it planted the
bomb “in retaliation for Bri
tain's involvement in the
American bombing of Libya.”
Cmdr. George Churchill
Coleman. head of .Scotland
Yard’s anti-terrorist branch.
refused to describe the bomb in
detail, saying only that it was
"fairly big" and caused “fairly
considerable” damage. News
reports said it was hidden
artiong bags of garbage outside
the airline office.
Oxford Street was closed for
seven hours while police sear
ched for possible additional
bombs Victoria -Station, the
busiest in Ijondon. also was
evacuated briefly Thursday
morning because of a bomb
scare that turned out to be a
hoax..police said.
When police reopened Ox
ford'Street around noon,
'crowds thronged in. saying they
' vvereu't.-afraid of another bomb.
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Habib suggests a potential
compromise with Nicaragua
WASHINGTON (AP) - A potential com
promise between the Reagan administration
and the J, ndinista leadership of Nicaragua is
emerging which would end IJ.S. support tor
the Contra guerrillas in exchange for
guarantees of peaceful behavior by the San*
dinistas. several congressman said Thursday.
lawmakers and other officials said they
are encouraged that a such a compromise Is
even being discussed, and they credited
presidential envoy Philip Habib as pointing
the way.
Habib, they said, spelled out the potential
for resolution of the problem in an April ! 1 let
ter. which drew little attention at the time
Such a potential compromise is only in
the formative stages, and the attitudes of Presi
dent Reagan and the Snndinistas are not
known. As recently as Wednesday, for in
stance. Reagan pledged his fuij support to the
Contras, whom he calls "freedom-fighters,"
Hut in the April 11 letter. Habib said the
administration interprets existing peace 'pro
posals by the so-called Contadora nations "as
requiring a cessation of support'to irregular
forces and/or insurrectional movements from
the date of signature." ••
The United States would, "support and
abide by a ' comprehensive, verifiable and
simultaneous implementation" of an agree
ment fulfilling the objectives of the (mntadora
peace effort. Habib's letter said, as long as
Nicaragua also supports and abides by such an
agreement.
Mahib sunt the letter to Reps. Jim Slattery.
D-kon.; Michael Barnes. i)-Md.. and Hill
Richardson. I) N M at their request following
a mooting they held with him in early April
This happened niter the three congressmen
returned from observing a Cont adorn meeting
in Panama City
The objectives of the Contadoro countries
— Panama. Mexico. Venezuela and Colombia
— would require free elections in Nicaragua
and what ope congressional staff aide called
"some democratization" by the leftist govern
ment. The aide, who insisted on anonymity,
said the Marxist-heninists among Nicaragua’s
leadership won't want to do that, imf their
choice will be’ between peace or continued
conflict, .
•In turn, the administration would agree to
"end aid - to the Contras simultaneous with
.Nicaragua’s signing of The agreement, which
. would be arranged by the Contadbra group of
l^tin American countries
'o The Contadoraprocess also would
establish a verification procedure for deter
mining compliance with the agreement, which
"could be signed as early as |une t. U if all sides
agreed • v • '
Nicaraguan President Daniel .Orlega said
•in April "U the Nicaraguans would sign an
agreement on ,June Jti if the administration
agreed to terminate Contra aid.
Botha declares ‘era of freedom’
JOHANNESBURG. South Africa (AP) At
: • President .P.W Botha‘said Thursday, that, lift in#..
pass laws for blacks .means .“a, new era of
friiedom^frirfhis troubled land, but critics clai'iiY
a lough now security-law,, undercuts the reform..
On Wednesday the-r white government
suspended enforcement of. lavys restricting the0
movements of blacks and introduced legislation
to repeal them, but also proposed giving police
. greater powers in designated’unreal areas
• leaders of the United Democratic I-font, the
coalition against apartheid,'said- the proposed
sixurily law will give the-lav? and order minister
■‘a|most dictatorial powers" and urged blacks to
form self-defense committees.
Botha said in a lull-page advertisement
published in several major'newspapers’;that his
government had confounded its detrai tors by
delivering on a pledge to abolish the pass laws.
' • . .. The hated regulation*, officially called influx
. i:onfnij:-h«v«* lawn, i:orn»!rstnn«*s of apartheid
.. i|Huv. aeverely. Mrfd Whiint l>lfM:ki at) travel
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Wherever they'can find an approved site, hut
residential areas still will he segregated. Rural
bla; ks still may npt.be able to move to the cities
hecau*dJi)tlehousing is available in urban black
'--areas.'.'/
•’The pass laws have gone.” Botha said
' The prisons are emptied of the vic tims of this
unhappy system No South African will ever suf
fer (lie mdignit v of arrest for a pass offense again
Murphy Mnrpbe. spokesman tor the United
Democratic I'ront, said those praising the in
itiative. “must remember that these repealed laws
have already broken up families, led to the the
deaths of thousands of blac ks and cost untold
misery to millions of disenfranc hised Africans
Afghan rebels being heavily bombarded
ISLAMABAD. Pakistan (AP>
— '/Afghan rebel commanders
said Thursday that Soviet and
Afghan warplanes were killing
and maiming hundreds of their
men in lionstop raids on reliel
positions in southeastern
Afghanistan.
A senior commander called it
the heaviest aerial bombard
ment in the seven-year Moslem
insurgency against the com
munist Afghan government and
said it was the first use of large
scale night raids in that area.
Rahim Wardak said about
10.000 troops were advancing
behind the air cover. with tank
and artillery support. against
makeshift retail positions in
Paktia province near the
Pakistani border, insurgent
leaders acknowledged Wednes
day that Soviet commandos had
captured and destroyed the
main retail base at Zhawar.
“This is the worst fighting
we’ve ever seen The air attacks
are terrible." Wardak. a top
commander of the National
Islamic Front of Afghanistan,
lidd The Associated Press
Wardak. who returned from
Paktia on Thursday, said Soviet
and Afghan Su 22 j«*i Iwmbers
.•ml Mi(i 21 and Mid 21 fi|(ht(‘r
Iki m tiers were dropping
”ioil-jiouild bombs on rebels
who bad no air defenses.
Anal her guerrilla commander
just back from Paklia. who in
sisted on anonymity, said he
had seen atlai k>nv. aquadmn* nl
up lo HI planes.
I igltling was lieii.es! I hurs
il.o around tin; government
hejd town of Kliost. VVardak
reported. He said jets were hit
ling reliel positions in the sur
rounding hills and his men an
ticipated new ground attacks.
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