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WORLD, Page 27World NotesBRITAINThe Day the Music Died
The three-story building near the Kent port of Deal in
southeastern England housed young recruits, some only 16 years old,
who were training for the famed Royal Marines marching band. Last
week their music was silenced in a deafening explosion that leveled
one of the barracks and rattled houses within a two-mile radius.
The toll: ten dead, 22 injured. British Defense Secretary Tom King
called the blast an "appalling outrage against young army bandsmen
who work for charity and who have given great enjoyment to millions
across the country."
The Irish Republican Army immediately claimed responsibility
for the bombing. In a statement that was released in Dublin, the
I.R.A. noted that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had
"visited occupied Ireland with a message of war when we want peace.
Now we in turn have visited the Royal Marines in Kent." Two weeks
ago, the Prime Minister had toured Northern Ireland and praised the
Ulster Defense Regiment, calling it a "very, very, very brave group
of men." The U.D.R. has been accused of leaking names of I.R.A.
suspects to Protestant assassins.