The World - News from May 3, 1988
An accused Japanese Red Army terrorist tried to swallow a “hit list” during his arrest that included South Korean President Roh Tae Woo and former President Chun Doo Hwan, Japan’s Kyodo News Service reported. The news agency, quoting police sources, said Osamu Maruoka, 37, tried to eat the list--but was foiled--when arrested Nov. 21 in Tokyo carrying an airplane ticket to Seoul. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reported that another suspected Red Army member arrested in New Jersey on April 12 may have planned to bomb the U.N. building in New York. The Japanese Red Army has also been linked to a bombing at a U.S. military club in Naples, Italy, on April 14 that killed five people including a U.S. servicewoman.
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