Police are investigating bomb blasts that damaged a synagogue and a Jewish school in a Buenos Aires suburb last night without causing any injuries, The bombings followed an incendiary bomb attack last Thursday on a downtown Buenos Aires movie house screening the new Argentine film, “Los Gauchos Judios” (The Jewish Gauchos,) The film, based on the classic novel by the late Alberto Gerhunoff, was shot at Campo de Mayo, a major military garrison, with the army’s cooperation, Last January, extremists bombed the site, destroying scenery and technical equipment, No injuries were sustained because the bombing took place at night when the set was empty.
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