The World - News from Jan. 6, 1989

Irish and British police struck a double blow at the outlawed Irish Republican Army, uncovering a bomb factory in Northern Ireland and an arms dump in the Irish Republic, authorities said. Police in the Irish Republic said they recovered 21 pounds of Semtex, the plastic explosive made in Czechoslovakia and believed used in the bombing of Pan American World Airways Flight 103 two weeks ago that killed 270 people. They also reportedly found 36 homemade mortars loaded with Semtex, electrical bomb detonators, Soviet-made Kalashnikov rifles and 600 rounds of ammunition. Across the border in Londonderry, police uncovered what they called “a complete bomb factory” in an abandoned house.