Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their names, tied them up, and began photographing them with a Polaroid camera. When the woman commando asked Martinez his name, she shouted: "Cero! Cero! Martinez is here!" Cero,* later identified by authorities as a "militant" named Eden Pastora, 42, turned to Martinez and said: "If the Somoza forces attack, you will be the first shot...
...Israeli attack was in retaliation for a terrorist assault on an El Al flight crew in London a day earlier. In that incident a stewardess was killed, and two other members of the crew and seven bystanders were wounded. The Israelis criticized the British for having failed to provide El Al air crews with proper security. The British do not permit Israeli security guards to carry firearms on their soil, but after the London attack they assigned armed guards to escort the airline's personnel...
Here orators in ages past Have mounted their attack Undaunted by the proximity Of sausage on the rack...
DIED. Charles Eames, 71, modern designer whose name became synonymous with his curved chairs; of a heart attack; in St. Louis. In 1941, while designing molded machine parts for the U.S. Navy, Eames collaborated by night with his wife Ray to produce the "potato chip," a sculptured wood back and separate seat, both affixed to a steel frame. Today his molded plastic chairs are found in airline terminals and office lobbies the world over...
DIED. Charles Boyer, 78, debonair, French-born Hollywood star of the '30s and '40s; of an apparent heart attack suffered two days after his wife of 36 years had died; in Phoenix. Endowed with a voice that women found deeply sensual, Boyer was probably best known for the invitation credited to him (but never uttered) in Algiers: "Come weez me to ze Casbah...