The World - News from May 22, 1989

A series of arrests in Sweden of people of Arab origin suspected of guerrilla attacks appears to be part of an international police effort to find the group that blew up a Pan Am jet over Scotland last December. Over the weekend, Swedish courts ordered five men suspected of a series of bombings in 1985 and 1986 to be taken into custody. Police said the five were linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, which the CIA believes may have planted the Pan Am bomb. A Scottish police spokesman, however, said the reports of a link between the Pan Am bombing and the five arrests was speculation at this point.