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Friday, February 16. 1996
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Second bomb found in London
The Associated Press
LONDON — Police deactivated a bomb in London's theater district yesterday hours after the Irish Republican Army appeared to reject demands for a new cease-fire.
No one claimed responsibility for the small bomb found near Shaftesbury Avenue, famous for its theaters and restaurants, but Scotland Yard said two coded telephone warnings bore all the hallmarks of the IRA.
Police were evacuating buildings in a London business district on Feb. 9 after similar warnings when a truck bomb exploded, killing two people, wounding more than 100 people and causing an estimated $125 million in damage.
The bombing broke a 17-month cease-fire in the IRA's campaign to end Britain's eight-century rule of Northern Ireland.
Just after 12:30 p.m. yesterday, barricades went up after police received seven coded warnings. Some people were evacuated, and others were told to stay inside.
Police sealed off Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, the bustling shopping district along Oxford Street and six subway stations but reopened them about three hours after the warnings.
The bomb was found in a sports bag in a phone booth on Charing Cross Road after two imprecise warnings, a Scotland Yard statement said.
Police described it as small, but such devices have killed passersby in the past.
In the IRA's first pronouncement since claiming responsibility for the Feb. 9 bombing, it made what appeared to be a threat of further attacks, saying it would continue to
assert Irish national rights in the face of British denial for as long as is necessary.
The statement blamed British Prime Minister John Major for the breakdown of the truce and repeated its demand for all-party talks on the future of Northern Ireland.
The IRA wants its political ally, Sinn Fein, included in the talks. The British and Irish governments have barred elected cabinet members from contact with Sinn Fein.
Irish civil servants plan to meet Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams today in Dublin.
The British and Irish governments have demanded a new cease-fire.
Protestants, the majority in Northern Ireland, largely favor British rule. The IRA draws its support from a minority within the Roman Catholic community, about 40 percent of the population.
The IRA statement yesterday urged pro-British militants to hold their fire.
"The IRA leadership delivered a complete cessation of military operations on a clear, unambiguous and shared understanding that inclusive negotiations would rapidly commence to bring about political agreement and a peace settlement," the IRA statement said.
Irish Prime Minister John Bruton said Protestant militant leaders shared a responsibility to salvage the peace, and that they could not use the Feb. 9 bombing as justification to halt the process.
"The building of peace and the working toward agreement requires a greater generosity of spirit from the two main unionist parties than was evident throughout the past 17 months," he said.
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