The World - News from Sept. 21, 1987
Protestant radicals plan to kill Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey to mark the second anniversary, in November, of an accord giving the Republic of Ireland a role in governing Northern Ireland, British and Irish newspapers reported. However, a spokesman for the Ulster Defense Assn., a Protestant paramilitary group, called the reports “ridiculous.” The reports came as British police bolstered security to guard British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher against a reported plot by the Irish Republican Army to assassinate her next month at the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool. The IRA is fighting to end British rule in Northern Ireland.
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