HAMBURG, West Germany: A bomb exploded in a tavern early Thursday, wounding the innkeeper and killing a guest, police said.
Police said they did not know whether the 4 a.m, explosion was intentional.
Officers said a guest known to the owner carried the explosive device in a plastic bag into the tavern moments before the blast.
The device went off as the guest removed it from the bag and tried to open it in the owner’s presence.
Police said the guest, who was killed on the spot, might have made the bomb himself or have found it. The innkeeper was hospitalized with serious injuries.
LONDON: The Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet decided Thursday to go ahead with a 10-day four of Israel, reversing a vote by dancers and backup staff to cancel the trip because of fears of terror attacks.
The ballet at the same time decided to send a delegation to Israel next week to assure dancers that security measures were adequate for the performance.
“This is a victory for reason, a victory for common sense,” said Lilian Hochhauser, one of the tours organizers who had said a cancellation would have been a “victory for terrorism.”
The 80-member company voted this week to cancel the tour because of fears of reprisal attacks following Britain’s support of the April 15 USS air raid against Libya.
A cancellation could have embarrassed Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher because she plane to leave London this month for the first official visit by a British government leader to Israel.
The ballets opening performance is set for June 7, when it will perform Swan Lake before an audience that is expected to include Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and President Chaim Herzog.
BRASILIA, Brazil Salvadorian President Jose Napoleon Duarte arrived Saturday for a five-day Visit to discuss his plan for peace in Central America.
“The Central American question will be one of the important points in the conversations between Duarte and Sarney,” said foreign ministry spokesman Gilberto Veloso.
“I believe that President Sarney wants to hear President Duartes evaluation of Central American problems,” he said.
Brazil is Duartes final stop in a four-nation visit that also took him to Argentina, Peru and Uruguay in support of the Contadora group, which promotes peaceful solutions to Central! American conflict
LIBSON, Portugal Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi left Angola Saturday for Tanzania, the last stop of a four-nation African tour aimed at boosting the nonaligned movement.
During his 24-hour visit to Luanda, Gandhi held talks with Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos on “international problems and questions of regional and bilateral interest,” the official Angolan news agency ANGOP said Saturday.
The talks culminated in a memorandum to be signed during an Angolan delegation visit to India in July the agency said in a dispatch monitored in Lisbon. The contents of the memorandum were not disclosed.
Gandhi, who heads the nonaligned nations, said in a news conference before his departure that India would open an embassy in the capital, Luanda, said the agency.
Gandhi’s brief stay in Angola followed a day of talks with Prime Minister Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe on international efforts to end apartheid in South Africa.
MANILA – At least eight people drowned and 13 are missing when a domestic ferry sank in stormy waters off the southern province of Lanao del Sur, Coast Guard authorities said Saturday.
A spokesman said strong winds and large waves Thursday sank the motor launch Farida II, which carried 40 passengers and 11 crewmen.
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