The World - News from Nov. 13, 1985
A Northern Ireland guerrilla group claimed responsibility for planting two bombs found outside an army barracks in central London. The bombs, containing 40 pounds of explosives, were defused by army experts. Passers-by spotted the devices, wired to alarm clocks and hidden in shopping bags, outside the Chelsea barracks. In a telephone call to a television station in Dublin, a man claimed responsibility for the bombs on behalf of the Irish National Liberation Army, which, along with the Irish Republican Army, is fighting British rule in Ulster.
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