RUC Alleges Letter Bomb sent to Trimble Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit "Edmond J. \(Skip\) O'Neill" Oct 19, 1997 Letter bomb sent to Ulster Unionist BOMB disposal experts have defused a letter bomb sent to Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble. The package arrived in the morning post at his constituency office in Lurgan, Co Armagh, said the RUC. The device was "crude but capable of exploding", said a spokesman. A number of shops and businesses close to the Queen Street constituency office were evacuated while army bomb disposal experts made the device safe. It was the latest in a series of similar devices sent to leading Ulster politicians. Last week another was defused after being sent to fellow Ulster Unionist MP Jeffrey Donaldson at his office at the Lisburn Borough Council headquarters in Hillsborough, Co Down. In recent weeks other devices of similar make-up have been made safe after being delivered to UK Unionist leader Robert McCartney, MP, at both his Bangor, Co Down constituency office and his office in the Northern Ireland Forum in Belfast. A DUP Belfast City councillor has also been targeted. No organisation has claimed responsibility for any of the attacks. ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytire-10.21.97-00:36:03-11517