The World - News from Nov. 21, 1988

A car rigged with explosives blew up near a British army base in Belfast, Northern Ireland, slightly wounding nine soldiers, police said. The nighttime blast at an intersection near the North Howard Street army base was heard across much of west and south Belfast. Nine soldiers were taken to a hospital, but their injuries were found to be slight, a police spokesman said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Earlier in the day, a soldier from the locally recruited Ulster Defense Regiment spotted a bomb under his car in Dundrum in County Down, authorities said. Fifty people were cleared from their homes for more than three hours while the device was defused.