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IRA claims London bombing
LONDON — The Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility yesterday for a blast that ripped through a double-decker bus in central London Sunday night, killing one person and injuring nine. Police said they believed the bomb was detonated accidentally and the carrier may have been among the victims.
The Associated Press
Two people were arrested yesterday under anti-terrorism laws, Scotland Yard said. But it refused to say whether they were connected to Sunday's explosion.
Despite some Protestant political leaders' demands that the government lock up all suspected IRA leaders, British and Irish leaders continued trying to salvage the battered peace process in Northern Ireland.
The IRA already had killed two people in London since calling off its 17-month cease-fire Feb. 9.
Scotland Yard said there was no warning before the 10:38 p.m. explosion at the edge of the theater district, near Covent Garden's popular restaurants and bars.
Commander John Grieve, head of Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist unit, said the bus wasn't the intended target, although he couldn't say what was.
The IRA, in a statement telephoned to the British Broadcasting Corp. in Belfast, Northern Ireland, claimed response
"We can say at this stage we regret the loss of life and injuries which occurred," the caller said.
The mangled and burned wreckage continued to block traffic yesterday while police technicians probed for clues. Buses carry video cameras, but it wasn't known if they survived the blast.
Four victims of the blast remained hospitalized yesterday.
John Langton London resident
D av i d Williams, a doctor and director of accidents and emergencies at St. Thomas' Hospital, where the victims were treated, confirmed yesterday that armed guards were on duty in the hospital. Scotland Yard would not comment on the reason for the extra security.
Williams said one injured man, 38-year-old Ralf Hobart of Torquay in southwestern England, suffered severe injuries on the right side of his face and was in critical condition. His girlfriend, Denise Hall, 30, also was injured.
Meanwhile, Londoners settled into the familiar routine of bomb alerts, train cancellations and immobilized traffic.
"You have always got it in the back of your mind that you could be in the same street next time," said John Langton, who was delivering meat yesterday near the scene of the bombing.
"I am just carrying on as normal. There is nothing you can do except hope the bombs don't come to you."
Peter Robinson, deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, the third-largest and exclusively Protestant party in Northern Ireland, urged the government to simply lock up suspected IRA leaders.
However, Sir Patrick Mayhew, Britain's minister responsible for governing Northern Ireland, said the search for a peaceful settlement would continue despite the bombing. Mayhew rejected Protestant calls for the government to end all contacts with the IRA's allies in the Sinn Fein party.
"It's perfectly clear that this (bombing) is part of a campaign designed to make the British government, a democratic government, comply with the wishes of terrorists. But of course that's going to fail," he said.
Highway attracts UFO believers
The Associated Press
RACHEL, Nev. — If E.T. is ever looking for a place to phone home, or searching for a route back to his extraterrestrial kin, this blip of a town may be just the ticket.
For what has been a longtime mecca for people who believe that we are not alone, Rachel is now the anchor for Nevada's newest tourist attraction — the Extraterrestrial Highway. It's even going to get official state highway signs.
Folks here are convinced that there are alien visitors just over the mountains to the south, at a top-secret government base known as Area 51, or Groom Lake.
"I think there are people and machines from other planets over there," Pat Travis said as she scrubbed breakfast dishes at the Little A'Le'Im — the focal point of this hamlet of 100 people. "I think our government is working in conjunction with them."
Chuck Clark, an amateur astronomer who has written a guidebook on the area, said he didn't
doubt for a minute that extraterrestrials exist.
"To think we're the only life in the universe is ludicrous," he said.
Area 51 is veiled in mystery. The heavily guarded, isolated base 85 miles north of Las Vegas is where the government has tested some of its most exotic aircraft, including the U-2, SR-71 Blackbird and F-117A stealth fighter, and is now believed to be flying a new reconnaissance plane called Aurora.
Officially, the military won't even acknowledge the base exists. Uniformed Marines and Air Force personnel drive through, and some stop at the Little A'Le'Irn for breakfast.
"I have never had anybody who works at Area 51 tell us anything." Travis said. "We've had some of them get pretty drunk and they still don't tell anything."
While the federal government wishes everyone would go away, the Nevada Transportation Department recently named a 92-mile stretch of desolate state route 375 the Extraterrestrial Highway. It plans to put up four signs at a cost
of $3,300.
Gov. Bob Miller quipped that some of the signs should be placed flat on the ground so aliens can land there.
The governor said the designation shows Nevada has a sense of humor.
"Instead of being insulted, we turned it around, set up weigh stations, and created T-shirts and bumper stickers reading, I survived the loneliest road in America." Miller said.
The Little A'Le'Im features racks of UFO T-shirts, caps and books, and photos taken from a distance of the hangars and 30,000-foot runway at Groom Lake.
UFO buffs still seek out the black mailbox along Highway 375 that marks the road leading to restricted land surrounding Area 51. But armed guards keep gawkers more than seven miles from the base.
They cannot block the sights and sounds, such as the light and deafening roar that sweep across the remote valley when Aurora takes to the sky, Clark said.
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