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DATE: THURSDAY, April 12, 1990                   TAG: 9004120537
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A7   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: associated press
DATELINE: LONDON                                LENGTH: Short

BRITAIN STOPS SHIPMENT OF SUSPECTED GUN PARTS

British customs officials impounded a shipment of suspected gun parts bound for Iraq, officials reported Wednesday. The seizure came two weeks after U.S.-made components for nuclear detonators were confiscated en route to Baghdad.

Press Association, Britain's domestic news agency, said the consignment impounded Tuesday night on a dock in northeastern England included parts for a 131-foot gun barrel, apparently the largest of its type ever made.

"It is capable of firing a nuclear shell which could easily hit Iran or any other Middle East trouble spot from Iraq," a spokesman said.

by CNB