World IN BRIEF : BRITAIN : Police Deactivate Bomb in London
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Police deactivated a bomb in London’s theater district hours after the Irish Republican Army appeared to reject demands for a new cease-fire. No one claimed responsibility for the small bomb found near Shaftesbury Avenue, but Scotland Yard said two coded telephone warnings “bore all the hallmarks” of the IRA. The bomb was found in a sports bag in a phone booth on Charing Cross Road.
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