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Newspaper
Delaware County Daily Times
Location
Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1990
Page
9
Armed groups battled at Soweto train station as passengers were attacked with spears and axes. Violence spilled into central Johannesburg with a deadly clash at the main railway station leaving one dead and six injured, police said. Authorities reported at least nine victims in total.
Beiruts As-Safir says all 14 Western hostages in Lebanon including six Americans will be freed by year end. Front page cites diplomatic sources noting secret contacts among capitals especially Tehran are under way to resolve the issue.
In Seoul during a border protest for Korean unification, about 60 radical students hurled firebombs at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers site as around 7 000 dissidents gathered for a mass near the city. In Riyadh a separate incident left a pregnant mother Kimberley Hinkson and her 10 year old daughter Courtney dead after a suspected drug dealer hijacked their car and was killed in a police shootout. the father was wounded.
Two suspected IRA members Terence Gerard McGeough and Gerard Thomas Hanratty, both 31 from Northern Ireland, faced trial in Düsseldorf under heavy security for a 1988 bombing at a British army barracks in West Germany. The evening violence left several dead and over 100 injured, with 15 in critical condition.
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