The World - News from Aug. 4, 1985
Northern Ireland authorities foiled an apparent terrorist plan to attack the police station in the border town of Newry when they found mortar-launching tubes in a van parked nearby. The planned attack was cut short about five months after nine people died in a rocket attack on the station. In a related development, the Sunday Times of London reported that prominent militant leader Gerry Adams has been named chief of staff of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. Adams, an elected member of Parliament from Belfast, is president of Sinn Fein, the legal political wing of the IRA.
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