The World - News from Sept. 20, 1985
The Palestinian group Black September claimed responsibility for killing Jordanian publisher Michel Nimri in Athens, and a Muslim group said it was behind an explosion in a Rome cafe Tuesday. Statements to a Beirut news agency described Nimri--shot to death outside the offices of his Athens-based magazine An Nashra--as a “spy and agent” working for Western intelligence agencies. The “Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims” said it blew up “an American-British intelligence den” at the Cafe de Paris in Rome, wounding 39 people.
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