The World - News from April 26, 1989

Ireland has protested forcefully to South Africa over allegations that Pretoria supplied arms to Protestant extremists in Northern Ireland as part of a failed attempt to obtain a stolen British missile, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said in Dublin. Meanwhile, French Interior Minister Pierre Joxe met in Paris with Tom King, Britain’s secretary for Northern Ireland, to discuss the fate of the three members of the Protestant Ulster Defense Assn. arrested while trying to sell a British Blowpipe missile to a South African diplomat. And in Johannesburg, South African opposition leaders urged that the defense minister resign and that criminal charges be brought against the diplomat, Daniel Storm.