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A second American soldier has died of wounds suffered in the April 5 bombing of a West Berlin nightclub, a U.S. military spokesman said. Army Staff Sgt. James E. Goins, 26, of Ellerbee, N.C., had been in critical condition since the bombing of the La Belle discotheque by supected Libyan terrorists. Goins belonged to the 4th Battalion of the 502nd Infantry Regiment of the Berlin Brigade. He is survived by his wife and 5-year-old son. Sgt. Kenneth Terrance Ford, 21, and a 28-year-old Turkish woman were killed in the blast and more than 200 injured.
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