Car Bomb Defused; Peace Talks in Peril
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From Times Wire Reports
British forces defused a 500-pound car bomb in Banbridge, southwest of Belfast, hours before the latest round of talks on the province’s ailing peace process. No group claimed responsibility, but pro-British Protestant leader David Trimble blamed Roman Catholic militants who oppose British rule. British and Irish ministers, faced with the possible collapse of multi-party peace talks aimed at ending sectarian strife, met with politicians linked to Protestant loyalists.
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