Extremists Suspected of Attacking Catholic Pub
From Times Wire Reports
Attackers believed to be Protestant extremists crashed a forklift truck into a Belfast pub packed with Catholics and then tossed gasoline bombs into the building, police said.
No one was hurt, but the forklift crashed through a window just above a bench where a patron had been sitting seconds earlier, bar owner Sean Conlon said.
Roman Catholic leaders blamed the largest outlawed Protestant group, the Ulster Defense Assn.
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