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A youth tossed two grenades into a waterfront USO club Saturday, injuring six U.S. sailors on shore leave, shattering windows and ripping out a water pipe, authorities said. It was the second attack in Barcelona directed at Americans in less than three months. A Catalonian separatist group claimed responsibility for the earlier attack, which injured eight people at the U.S. consulate, but no group immediately claimed responsibility for Saturday's blast.

A witness heard a terrorist shout "Long live Lebanon!" before lobbing two hand grenades into a USO club in Barcelona, Spain, police said. The witness was not identified. A U.S. sailor, Ronald Strong, 22, of Reeders, Pa., was killed and nine others wounded in the attack on Saturday. The Barcelona daily La Vanguardia confirmed that police have doubts that a Catalonian separatist group, which claimed responsibility for the attack, had actually carried it out.

A fourth round of talks between Spain and the United States over a reduction of American troops stationed in Spain ended with no apparent progress. Neither side would give details on a new U.S. proposal, which Administration officials said was a "maximum effort." It was presented after Spain's request in December for about a 40% reduction in the 12,500 U.S. military personnel stationed in the country under a 1953 treaty.

A U.S. sailor died Sunday from injuries suffered in a grenade attack that wounded nine other sailors, and separatist guerrillas claimed responsibility for the terrorist strike on a waterfront USO club packed with servicemen. U.S. Embassy spokesman Robert Meade said Navy Seaman Ronald Strong, 20, of Reeders, Pa., died at Hospital del Mar about 4 a.m. of injuries suffered in the blast. Nine other sailors were slightly wounded in the attack that ripped through the USO club about 6 p.m.

Several thousand demonstrators chanting "NATO No, Bases Out" marched on a U.S. air base Sunday to protest the U.S. military presence in Spain, police said.

Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez has broken off negotiations with the United States over the stationing of American F-16 fighter-bombers in Spain and has told Washington that it must withdraw the warplanes within 3 1/2 years, diplomatic sources disclosed Wednesday.

Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez has broken off negotiations with the United States over the stationing of American F-16 fighter-bombers in Spain and has told Washington that it must withdraw the warplanes within 3 1/2 years, diplomatic sources disclosed Wednesday.

Several thousand demonstrators chanting "NATO No, Bases Out" marched on a U.S. air base Sunday to protest the U.S. military presence in Spain, police said.