The World - News from Oct. 9, 1985
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Britain’s Conservative Party opened its annual convention in Blackpool, England, amid massive security aimed at averting a repetition of the bomb attack by the outlawed Irish Republican Army at last year’s convention that killed five people and injured 30. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, target of the 1984 attack, was staying at an undisclosed location.
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