The World - News from April 28, 1986

A car bomb, set to explode in downtown Belfast as hundreds of Protestants marched in annual church parades, was defused after police were tipped off by an anonymous caller. The tip led police to an abandoned car with more than 200 pounds of homemade explosives packed in its trunk. The area was evacuated as British army bomb-disposal experts defused and dismantled the device. A police spokesman said the call may have come from an Irish Republican Army supporter who was concerned at the huge toll the bomb could have taken.