The World - News from Feb. 26, 1989

A court in Florence, Italy, convicted seven people, including five organized crime figures, in a 1984 train bombing that killed 16 Christmas travelers and wounded more than 200. A panel of judges acquitted two people after ruling there was insufficient evidence to tie them to the Dec. 23 bombing of an express train as it passed through a tunnel between Florence and Bologna. Five of the defendants were sentenced to life in prison, including Giuseppe (Pippo) Calo, an alleged Sicilian Mafia crime figure. The other two received 25- and 28-year terms. The prosecution alleged that the defendants wanted to use the bombing to distract authorities investigating organized crime.