World IN BRIEF : SOUTH AFRICA : Police Deny Report of Assassination Plot
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Police in Johannesburg denied a local newspaper report of a right-wing plot using German neo-Nazi mercenaries to assassinate President Nelson Mandela at his inauguration in Pretoria on May 10. The newspaper quoted a source as saying police investigated reports that right-wingers with bombs had been spotted on a hill overlooking Pretoria’s Union Buildings.
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