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■■ ■ . -- I TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Federal agents arrested a 15-year-old boy Thursday on charges he bombed and shot up an abortion clinic in a series of attacks that started on New Year’s Day. The boy, whose name was not re leased, faces charges of using an ex plosive device and a firearm to dam age a building, U.S. Attorney Steve Lewis said. • Lewis gave no motive for the at tacks at the Reproductive Services clinic in Thlsa. KOTV-TV and radio station KRMG reported that hand grenades and other weapons were discovered in the youngster’s house in suburban Bixby, Okla. Authorities wouldn’t comment on any evidence found. The clinic was fire bombed cm New Year’s Day, then hit with two uniden tified explosive devices on Jan. 19. On Sunday, someone broke in and shot up medical equipment. No one was in jured in any of the attacks. The search of the boy’s house Thursday morning was prompted by a tip that came in from a caller after the FBI issued a sketch and two en hanced images of a suspect in the break-in. Authorities wouldn’t say where the images came from. “No decision has been made re garding whether there would be a re quest to try the young man as an adult,” Lewis said. Sherri Finik, executive director of the clinic, said she was grateful for the arrest. “It’s just a wonderful sense of safety and security,” Finik said. “For the first time in months, really, I felt that I can go home and not be worried about what’s going to happen to the clinic when I’m not here.” Progress made in hostage talks I LIMA, Peru (AP)—In a first step toward negotiations to end Peru’s hos tage crisis, mediators met Thursday with leftist rebels holding 72 captives at the Japanese ambassador’s resi dence. Efforts to free the hostages “have advanced positively,” Roman Catho lic Archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani told reporters after the three-hour session inside the walled compound. TTie captives appear to be fine but they are “evidently tired” of being held, he said. Thursday’s meeting was consid ered an important step toward launch ing the first formal talks between rebel and government leaders since masked guerrillas seized the Japanese ambassador’s residence Dec. 17, tak ing more than 500 hostages. “This will help us define the even tual sequence of talks,” said President Alberto Fujimori, who has pledged to seek a peaceful solution to the crisis. A house across the street has been selected and furnished for possible negotiations. * There has been no sign yet, how ever, that the rebels will give ground on a key issue—their demand for the release of hundreds of comrades from Peruvian jails in exchange for the hos tages. Fujimori refuses to trade pris oners for hostages. 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