The World - News from Sept. 6, 1987

British police charged three people with plotting to kill Northern Ireland Secretary Tom King amid speculation that the outlawed Irish Republican Army will mount a new attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Newspapers reported police concern that the IRA planned to kill Thatcher at the Conservative Party’s annual conference--to be held Oct. 6-9 in Blackpool--to avenge a British army ambush in Northern Ireland last May that killed eight IRA guerrillas. Thatcher narrowly escaped death in 1984 when an IRA time bomb exploded in her hotel in Brighton during the party’s conference there. Five people were killed and 30 were injured in the attack.