The World - News from Dec. 20, 1988
The IRA, targeting British army families in a pre-Christmas blitz, staged a car-bomb attack that damaged 100 homes in a Northern Ireland housing tract, police said. Irish Republican Army guerrillas--who last Friday gave British army personnel one week to get their families out of Northern Ireland’s “war zone” or face continuing attacks--telephoned a 20-minute warning before the blast. Police and soldiers then worked to clear the Nelson housing tract in Londonderry, where about 60 British army families live. The IRA says the attacks are in retaliation for army searches of the homes of Irish nationalists.
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