WORLD IN BRIEF : UNITED KINGDOM : IRA Suspected in Failed Bomb Attack
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The Irish Republican Army apparently failed in an attempt to assassinate a British general who is second in command of land forces in Britain and Northern Ireland, police sources said in London. The target of the bombing was Lt. Gen. David Ramsbotham, 55, commander of the British Field Army and inspector general of the Territorial Army, the reserve force that had served in Northern Ireland. The sources said police defused a powerful bomb planted under a car near the general’s front door in London’s Kensington area after it was discovered by a passer-by.
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