Explosives Removed From Moscow Statue
From Times Wire Reports
Police removed seven packets of plastic explosives from a huge statue of Czar Peter the Great in Moscow. A radical leftist group claimed responsibility for the devices, saying they had been planted to protest plans to bury Bolshevik leader V. I. Lenin. Lenin’s embalmed body in its mausoleum in Red Square has been at the center of heated public debate since President Boris N. Yeltsin’s call for a national referendum on whether to bury it.
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