The World - News from June 12, 1986
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A jury in London convicted five Irish nationalists of plotting to blow up 16 British hotels during the height of last summer’s tourist season. According to a government prosecutor, the Irish Republican Army plan was “to create havoc and bloodshed throughout the country.” Anti-terrorist police foiled the plan. The five convicted included Patrick Magee, 35, of Belfast, Northern Ireland, who was found guilty earlier of a hotel blast during a Conservative Party convention in 1984. In that blast, five party members were killed and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher narrowly escaped injury.
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