A Palestinian terrorist group Thursday claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on a Mannheim crane works Monday night. The explosion caused damages totalling DM100,000. The works is a subsidiary of the Korf group, which in 1972 invested DM 30 million in an Israeli steel firm. The bomb in Mannheim went off 25 minutes after the time-bomb that partially wrecked the Israeli travel bureau in Frankfurt.
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