Bomb found at ‘Times’ printer

Press, 10 May 1979, Page 9

Bomb found at ‘Times’ printer

NZPA-Reuter Frankfurt, I The Frankfurt police have defused a home-made time bomb found outside a Turkish printing plant where “The Times” of London vainly tried to print an overseas edition 10 days ago.

5 The shrapnel-type bomb, consisting of 300 g of explosive and granite chips, was deposited in a plastic bag at the entrance to the T.E.R. printing works in Zeppelinheim. A spokesman for the police said the bomb was fitted with an electric time fuse. If it had exploded it would have caused considerable damage. Printers and office staff were evacuated from the two-storey building while police experts defused the bomb.

The discovery of the bomb coincided with a debate in the Jessen state Parliament

i over the attempt to publish an overseas edition of “The Times” on April 28-29. On that week-end the printing plant, which normally publishes the Turkishlanguage daily, “Tercueman,” was picketed by German printers who said they were determined to stop “The Times” from printing. “The Times” has not appeared in London for five months because of a labour dispute over the introduction of new technology. German and Turkish trade unionists from outside the T.E.R. printing works, supported by young Left-wing activists, besieged the building and kept up a hostile day and night vigil. “The Times” management abandoned its attempt to print the edition after petrolsoaked rags had been stuffed into an air ventilator leading into the plant. A limited edition was later run off at another plant. .