Word: blasted
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...FIRST BLAST ROCKED A GARAGE UNDER THE gleaming 29-story Bombay Stock Exchange. Over the next 2 1/2 hours, 11 more major detonations and several minor ones, most caused by car bombs, shook the center and some of the suburbs of India's largest city, killing more than 300, injuring 1,100 and leaving behind massive damage. The explosions touched off a blaze on the trading floor of the exchange, blew out the ground floor of Air India's headquarters and damaged three hotels...
...that PSR 2224+65 is in any sense an ordinary star. It is a pulsar, the superdense ash left behind when a star exploded -- about a million years ago -- in the phenomenon known as a supernova. The blast blew off the star's outer layers and flung the 3,000 trillion trillion ton, Manhattan-size pulsar through space. The dead star generates an enormous magnetic field, which in turn sends out powerful radio pulses (hence the name pulsar...
...mission. And despite astonishingly swift police work, the absence of a motive left several key questions unresolved. Given the size of the bomb, why target a parking garage, where the cost to human life would be relatively small? Given the failure of any group to claim responsibility before the blast, is it possible the bomb went off prematurely? If so, what was the intended target? And who was providing the cash...
...federal complaint against Ayyad states that on Feb. 25, the day before the blast, Salameh made several trips to a storage shed in Jersey City, where he kept his bombmaking materials. Four times that day he phoned from a nearby booth to Ayyad's office at AlliedSignal, calls that Salameh's lawyer, Robert Precht, insists concerned "a family matter." Moreover, the complaint states, sometime around Feb. 15, Ayyad rented a red General Motors sedan and listed "Salameh" as a second driver. A Ryder truck-rental employee says that on Feb. 23, when Salameh rented the yellow van believed to have...
DICK THORNBURGH, THE top-ranking American official in the U.N. Secretariat, wrapped up a year of service with a blast at the "deadwood, featherbedding, fraud and abuse" that permeate the world body. The departing Under Secretary- General for Management pulled no punches, charging that some vital agencies have become "patronage dumping grounds" and that the budgeting process is "almost surreal." Further angering Secretary-General Boutros Boutros- Ghali by going public with his mince-no-words report and then repeating his charges before a U.S. congressional committee, Thornburgh, a former Attorney General, warns that antireform forces are defeating efforts to make...