The World - News from Feb. 3, 1989
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Jamaican troops and police patrolled a tense provincial city to halt pre-election street fighting between party gunmen that has left at least two people dead and several houses firebombed this week. Hundreds of soldiers and police flooded into Spanish Town, about 15 miles west of Kingston, to stop clashes between supporters of the ruling Jamaica Labor Party and the opposition People’s National Party. The fighting in party-controlled neighborhoods was the worst since Prime Minister Edward Seaga announced Jan. 15 that next Thursday would be the date for long-awaited general elections in the Caribbean island nation.
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