The World - News from July 28, 1987

Nine homemade bombs exploded in three cities in the Dominican Republic over a 48-hour period as the country braced for a general strike called for today to demand a a 62% boost in the minimum wage. No one was injured, and damage was reported to be minor. A leftist group calling itself the Maximiliano Gomez Revolutionary Brigade took responsibility, calling the blasts “combat actions against objectives of the dominant class,” set off in support of the strike. A coalition of labor federations has called the general strike, to push for an increase in the minimum wage for public employees from $70 to $114 a month.