OTHER NEWS

LONDON POLICE discovered and defused a 1,000-pound bomb packed into a van near the market area of Belfast early Tuesday, and an elderly woman collapsed and died as authorities were evacuating the neighborhood. . . . A DERANGED woman in Fort Wayne, Ind., who said she shot and killed her son to save him from being tortured by the mob was given 10 years in prison. . . . IRAQI PRESIDENT Saddam Hussein pardoned and ordered the release of Frenchman Jean-Luc Barriere, jailed in Iraq on charges of entering the country illegally, in response to an appeal by the French government, the Iraqi News Agency reported Tuesday. . . . MARION BARRY, the former mayor of Washington, D.C., will marry longtime companion Cora Masters next month, according to The Washington Post.