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lime bombs rip INew York City
NEW YORK (UPI) — Power
ful time bombs exploded
outside the offices of a bank
and two insurance companies
before dawn today. A Puerto
Rican revolutionary group that
killed four people in a January
bombing took credit for the
blasts.
The bombs shattered plate
glass windows and awakened
hundreds of people in midtown
Manhattan. No one was serious
ly injured, however, and
damage to the buildings was
not severe because the explo
sives were placed at sidewalk
entrances. ~ •
A fourth bomb, apparently
discarded by the bombers
because its timing device was
about to detonate, exploded in a
trash pile outside a snack-food
restaurant;
Blizzard howls
over midlands
CHICAGO (UPI) — An April
blizzard howled across Chicago
Wednesday night, leaving city
streets deserted, shutting down
the world’s busiest airport and
turning the nation’s busiest
expressway into a ghost road of
; stalled cars.
When it was over, eight
persons were dead and thou
sands were stranded.
Eight persons died of heart
attacks while attempting to
shovel snow, push stalled autos
or hike to shelter from their
stalled cars.
The city crawled out from
beneath a one-foot shroud of
snow today and, informed the
worst was over, set about the
task of making the paralyzed
city run again.
All city schools were closed
today, as were most suburban
schools, and some businesses.
Traffic was still jammed up
on Chicago area expressways,
posing a nightmare to morning
rush hour motorists. But city
workers pushed aside hundreds
of stalled cars and plowed
away the snow and glare ice in
an effort to make highways
passable.
O’Hare International Airport,
shut down Wednesday for only
the third time in history,
remained closed as work crews
started clearing airport run
ways. An airport spokesman
said one runway would be open
by around noon.
Thousands of travelers were
stranded at O’Hare.
By late Wednesday, the
O’Hare Hilton hotel was booked
full and the O’Hare Travelers’
Aid office was swamped with
persons looking for a place to
spend the night.
“You’ll just have to find the
most comfortable chair,” Trav
elers Aid workers told them.
About 5,000 persons spent the
night at the snowswept airport.
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A man walking nearby when
I one of the bombs went off was
: knocked to the ground and
1 slightly injured. Four firemen
' were treated for cuts they
received while clearing away
fragments of broken glass from
window frames.
The first three bombs explod
ed at the headquarters offices
of the New York Life Insurance
Co. and the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Co. and a branch
office of Bankers Trust Co.
The fourth explosive was
tossed to the ground in the
neighborhood of the bank
branch. Police and fire officials
said, “Perhaps the bombers
had one timed device that was
about to go off and, knowing
that, they just tossed it out the
window of their car.”
A man with a Spanish accent
called the Associated Press at
hockey game with the Kansas
City Scouts scheduled for
Wednesday night was post
poned. The Scouts were unable
to fly into Chicago and were
diverted to Indianapolis and left
stranded.
Blinding, wind-driven snow
and sleet produced massive
traffic jams on major express
ways. Some exasperated moto
rists, stuck in heavy snows, left
their cars parked helter-skelter
along the expressways and
sought refuge from the storm.
Most expressways looked like
parking lots, and city streets
were desolate.
The storm came less than 48
hours after the March 31
deadline for removing studded
snow tires.
Nearly 1,000 students were
snowed in at three high schools
in northwest suburban Skokie
when the storm struck Wednes
day, out only a handful were
forced to spend the night.
Even the weathermen were
snowbound. One forecaster was.,
forced to spend the night at the
National Weather Service’s
O’Hare station and at least two
others were unable to get home
from the weather service’s
Chicago office.
“There were blizzard condi
tions because of the strong
winds and blowing snow,” an
NWS forecaster said. A foot of
snow fell on Chicago.
The same storm also slapped
a wide belt of the Midwest from
Nebraska and Michigan after
dumping up to 18 inches of
snow on the Rockies. Snow
plows and salt spreaders ruled
the highways in the nation’s
midlands.
Record cold chilled the upper
Midwest, the northern Plains
and the Rockies. The mercury
plummeted to a record low 15
below zero at Williston, N.D., 10
below at Bismarck, N.D., 7
below at Scottsbluff, Neb., 6
below at Cheyenne, Wyo., and 4
below at Duluth, Minn.
12:52 a.m., less than 35 minutes
after the explosions, and said,
“This is the F-A-L-N. We just
threw bombs. You will find a
communication in a telephone
booth at 88 St. and Lexington
Ave.”
A note was retrieved from
the telephone booth and given
to police officers, who dusted it
for fingerprints.
In the note, the FALN said it
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was taking “responsibility for
the bombings of yanki corpora
tions in New York on April 2,
1975. These corporations are at
the heart of yanki imperialism.
They are important decision
makers in the planning of
domestic and foreign policy and
benefit from the exploitation
and oppression of Puerto Rico
and other Third World nations
as well as the North American
working class.
“While the working class
through the capitalist world
suffers from recession and
sinks deeper into poverty, the
profits of these conglomerates
continue to grow.”
The group added that today’s
bombings were “the continua
tion of an offensive aimed at
gaining the independence of
Puerto Rico and the release of
five political prisoners.”
The letter was signed by the
“Commando Central FALN.”
The FALN, a group seeking
independence for Puerto Rico,
has claimed responsibility for
recent bombings in Manhattan,
including a Jan. 24 blast at
historic Fraunces Tavern that
killed four people and injured
more than 40 others.
Police Bomb Squad experts
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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, April 3,1975
who found fragments of the
bomb placed at the offices of
the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Co. described it was a “high
intensity explosive device with
a watch timing device.”
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Planes
have scrape
ATLANTA (UPI) — Delta
Airlines said Wednesday that
one of its Boeing 727 s scraped
the tail assembly of a Delta
DC9 with its wingtip while both
planes were awaiting takoff
clearance from Hartsfield In
ternational Airport.
None of the 185 passengers
and 12 crewmembers was
injured in the mishap, which
occured Tuesday night, accord
ing to Delta spokesman George
Shebd.