The Nation - News from April 26, 1985
An unemployed man who said he was a victim of racism and claimed to have a bomb mounted the altar of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York and demanded to be blessed by Archbishop John J. O’Connor. The bomb turned out to be an alarm clock inside a shoe box. The incident ended two hours later when the clock rang, the man dropped the device in disgust and police rushed him. O’Conner neither talked to the man nor blessed him. The man, identified as Pedro Laboy, 28, of Brooklyn, was hospitalized for psychiatric testing.
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