The World - News from June 24, 1985

London police defused a bomb planted in a packed hotel near Buckingham Palace. The five-pound device--similar to one used in an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at a hotel in Brighton last October--was found in a first floor room at the Reubens Hotel on Buckingham Palace Road. “We believe the probability is that the bomb was planted by the . . . IRA,” anti-terrorist squad Cmdr. Simon Crawshaw said, referring to the outlawed Irish Republican Army, which is fighting a guerrilla campaign to end British rule in Ulster.