Tuesday, November 10,1987/The Battalion/Page 7
World and Nation
Sri Lankan police say
bomb killed at least 32
I COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A
bomb explosion on a major road
:xpl
where thousands of commuters
I waited for buses home Monday blew
;ople to bits and set vehicles ablaze.
Police said at least 32 people were
killed and 105 injured.
Rescue workers put the death toll
; at more than 50 and said it may
feach 70.
Bodies and body parts lay scat
tered on the street and sidewalks in
jthe capital’s Maradana neighbor-
Ihood. The air smelled of burning
Hlesh. Ambulances and private cars
Ipore away the dead and wounded,
f At least 25 damaged cars and
§)buses littered the area. One bus was
Icompletely burned. Broken glass
Pfrom buildings covered the street.
I Whether the bomb was planted
||jnside a car or bus was not known. It
I nvent off about 5:40 p.m. near a po
lice station and a main bus stop
llightly over a mile east of downtown
^Colombo.
I Thousands of people had lined
the Maradana Road waiting for
buses home to the eastern suburbs.
There was no immediate claim of
responsibility. Police at the scene
blamed nationalist Sinhalese op
posed to a peace pact arranged by
India to end the civil war by rebels of
the Tamil minority, although the
Maradana area and eastern suburbs
are mainly Sinhalese.
A Parliament debate on imple
menting the peace agreement was
scheduled to begin Tuesday.
Constable Wimal Fernando said
he was leaving the police station
when “the blast of the bomb almost
threw me back inside. I was shocked
when I realized there were bodies all
over and vehicles were on fire.”
Chandrasiri Rupasinghe, 31, was
walking toward a bus stand. After
the explosion, he saw smoke rising
from cars and began pulling
wounded people away from the
flames. “Some of them were on fire,”
he said.
Soldiers fired into the air to dis
perse crowds impeding rescue work.
Police and military units cordoned
off the area.
Police and soldiers in Colombo
had been on alert because officials
expected an attempt by radicals in
the Sinhalese majority to foment ri
ots on the eve of the Parliament de
bate.
Leaders of the People’s Liberation
Front, the major Sinhalese national
ist group, have threatened death to
anyone who supports the peace
accord aimed at ending the four-
year war by Tamil rebels who want a
separate nation.
More than 6,000 people had been
killed by the time India and Sri
Lanka signed the peace agreement
July 29. It provides autonomy for
northern and eastern Sri Lanka,
where most Tamils live.
Monday’s explosion was the first
major bombing in Colombo since a
car bomb April 21 killed at least 180
people at the main bus terminal.
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ol
Irish Army
claims bomb
that killed 11
ENNISKILLEN, Northern
Ireland (AP) — The Irish Repub
lican Army said Monday it plan
ted the bomb that killed 11 civil
ians and injured 63 at war
memorial services, but that it
meant to kill soldiers and the
bomb went off prematurely.
The attack stirred a wave of re
vulsion on both sides of the Irish
island, among Protestants and
Roman Catholics alike.
Pope John Paul II sent a tele
gram to the local church in Ennis
killen, espressing his “heartfelt
condolences to the families of the
innocent persons killed by this
cruel (bombing) act.”
In a statement to Irish news
media, the outlawed IRA sought
to excuse the high civilian toll by
saying the 40-pound bomb
should have blown up as soldiers
marched by during the Remem
brance Day ceremony for fallen
British soldiers.
Authorities arrest
white supremacist
in sedition case
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) —
White supremacist Louis Ray Beam
Jr., one of 14 people indicted on se
dition in April and one of the FBI’s
10 most wanted fugitives, was ar
rested by Mexican police in Guadala
jara Friday, the FBI said Monday.
Beam, born in Lufkin, was a for
mer grand dragon of the Texas
Klan. He was to be returned to Fort
Smith Monday afternoon. Sedition is
plotting the overthrow of the federal
government.
Beam’s wife, Sheila Marie Toohey
Beam, 20, opened fire on arresting
officers and critically injured a Mexi
can police officer, said Don K. Pet-
tus, special agent in charge of the
FBI in Arkansas. Mexican authori
ties are holding her for assault on a
police officer.
Pettus said Beam, 41, was one of
the founders of the white supremac
ist movement in the United States.
He was affiliated with the Aryan Na
tion Church of Jesus Christ Chris
tian in Hayden Lake, Idaho.
“Prior to the indictment he had
been in and out of Arkansas,” Pettus
said. “To our knowledge he has not
been in Arkansas since the indict
ment.”
The indictments were returned
April 21.
The indictment charges Beam
and 13 others with participation in a
sedidous conspiracy to violently
overthrow the U.S. government and
with financing their efforts through
armed robberies and counterfeiting.
It also is alleged that they conspired
to diminish confidence in the gov
ernment bjr assassinating federal of
ficials and members of ethnic
groups, by bombings and by destruc
tion of utilities.
Oil industry leaders don’t expect
adverse effects from stock crash
CHICAGO (AP) — Top officials
of several major oil companies said
Monday they do not expect the re-
t cent collapse of world financial mar-
Lkets to adversely affect their busi-
! ‘ nesses in the near future.
And despite the continuing slide
of the dollar, the heads of Exxon,
Corp., Chevron Corp. and Amoco
Corp. also said they expect oil prices
to remain near current levels for the
I next several years, barring some ex
traordinary development.
“Regarding the stock market
crash, I don’t really see that it will
have a substantial impact,” Lawrence
Rawl, chairman of New York-based
Exxon, said.
Rawl acknowledged that contin
ued U.S. budget and trade deficits
could bring on a recession that
would “result in a direct impact.”
But he pointed out that various
stock market indicators currently are
still above their levels earlier this
year despite the events of Black
Monday and subsequent market vol
atility.
“I see these things as an aberra
tion,” Rawl said, referring to the
Oct. 19 crash. “I don’t see any great
big changes in demand (for oil), un
less we have a substantial recession.
And I don’t see that happening.”
The head of the nation’s largest
oil company met with reporters as
the annual convention of the Ameri
can Petroleum Institute, a Washing
ton-based trade association, was get
ting under way.
Sessions says FBI failed to uncover drug use
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI failed in 143 in
terviews over four years to turn up evidence of mari
juana use by Douglas H. Ginsburg, FBI Director Wil
liam Sessions disclosed Monday.
For the final background check — which was to have
been due Monday — the White House gave the FBI just
one week instead of the usual 25 days after President
Reagan nominated Ginsburg to the Supreme Court, the
officials said.
Sessions, in his first extensive interview with report
ers since he was sworn in Nov. 2, said that he will order
a review of the FBI’s background investigations into
Ginsburg and that the results will be referred to the Jus-
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