The World - News from April 14, 1985
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Two pre-dawn explosions in Paris severely damaged an Israeli bank and a French immigration office. The first blast struck Bank Leumi and shattered windows in the area, but caused no injuries. Jewish businesses and places of worship have been targets of a series of Parisian bombings since 1983. The second attack blew out windows at an immigration center near the Montparnasse rail station. The fundamentalist Islamic Jihad took responsibility for the first bombing; the extreme leftist Direct Action said it carried out the second.
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