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World IN BRIEF : GERMANY : Residents Evacuated as Bomb Is Disarmed

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From Times Staff and Wire Reports

Authorities evacuated about 2,000 residents in a section of Duesseldorf while experts disarmed a rusty British-made World War II bomb found at a nearby construction site. Flights in and out of the airport were halted as the experts spent about 40 minutes disarming the 2,000-pound bomb, officials said.

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