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Brighton Bomb Suspect in Court

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United Press International

A defiant Irish Republican Army suspect, wearing only shorts and giving a clenched fist salute, appeared in court today on charges he killed five people in a Brighton hotel bomb blast last fall aimed at Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Patrick Joseph Magee, a 34-year-old Belfast man, appeared with six other defendants, all of whom were suspects in a recently smashed IRA plot to plant bombs at 12 seaside resorts in England this summer. All were ordered held without bail on an assortment of terrorist charges.

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