The World - News from May 19, 1988
Two grenades exploded at the Guatemala City home of the correspondent for the Soviet news agency Tass, damaging a car and shattering windows but causing no injuries. Correspondent Alejandro Trouchine, who opened the Tass office in his Guatemala home in January, said the grenades were thrown from a moving vehicle shortly before dawn. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. But Trouchine revealed that he had received a letter May 9 from a right-wing terror group, Mano Blanca, or White Hand, threatening a “surprise” for both Tass and the official Cuban news agency Prensa Latina.
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