WORLD : Police Fire on Returning Soviets
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<i> From Times Wire Services</i>
MOSCOW — Soviet police fired machine-guns at three families in four cars that failed to stop at a road checkpoint returning from a trip to the West, the Communist Party daily Pravda said today.
A 17-year-old boy was injured and the cars were riddled with bullets in the nighttime incident near the Ural Mountains city of Chelyabinsk. The families, driving foreign-made cars from Germany to Kazakhstan, said they ignored an order to stop because they mistook the police for roadside bandits.
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