The World - News from April 29, 1988
Eight to 10 masked attackers burst into a television and radio station on the West Indies island of Martinique, lobbing Molotov cocktails and a grenade, police said. One technician was wounded and broadcasting was knocked out. An obscure separatist group calling itself May 22, 1848--the date slavery was abolished on the island now administered as a French overseas department--claimed responsibility for the assault on the Fort-de-France studio of Radio France Overseas. The French government currently is beset by separatist violence in the South Pacific territory of New Caledonia, where Melanesians seeking independence killed four gendarmes last week.
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