Bombs explode on Wall St
NZPA-Reuter New York Four bombs rocked New York's Wall Street financial district yesterday. The police said that the bombs exploded at the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, the Merrill Lynch brokerage house building, and the Chase Manhattan Bank building. ....
A Puerto. Rican nationalist group, the F.A.L.N. (Armed Forces for National Liberation) which has claimed responsibility for past bombings, called a news agency to say that a communique was
several kilometres north of where the bombs went off. The caller did not mention the bombings. The blasts were reported around midnight when the Wall Street area is usually unoccupied. There were no immediate reports of casualties. -
The police said that a suspicious package was found at the Morgan Guaranty Trust building. It was being examined by police explosive experts. F.A.L.N. launched a wave of bomb attacks which killed five people and injured at least 100 in New York and Chicago between 1975 and 1980.
It was campaigning to drive the Americans from Puerto Rico and gain independence for the Caribbean island, which has the status of a United, States commonwealth territory. Eleven F.A.L.N. members were jailed for terms ranging from 55 to 90 years, and one of their leaders, Oscar Lopez-Rivera, told a Chicago Court before being sentenced: “I admit I am an enemy of the United States Government. All I. want is the freedom of my country.”
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