The World - News from Aug. 7, 1988
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The outlawed Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for planting a bomb at a British army base near Duesseldorf, West Germany, on Friday that injured three soldiers and a German civilian. Meanwhile, Northern Irish police stepped up security along the province’s 300-mile border with the Irish Republic amid concern that Martin Galvin, leader of the Northern Irish Aid Committee, a U.S. fund-raising organization known as Noraid, would attempt to slip into the province illegally and address a pro-IRA rally. The British government accuses Noraid of raising funds for the IRA.
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