Word: blasting
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...Four men had long been suspected in the blast. One, Thomas E. Blanton, was convicted last year and is now serving life. 'Dynamite' Bob Chambliss was convicted in 1977 and died in jail. The fourth suspect, Herman Cash, died in 1994 without being charged...
...ready for a blast of publicity about "The Sexual Life of Catherine M." by Catherine Millet, translated by Adriana Hunter (Grove Press; June 12). The book is an extraordinarily frank sexual memoir by a well-respected editor in Paris. The book has already sold 300,000 copies in France...
...officer from a kibbutz outside Jerusalem, Harazi went into a half-built house to provide covering fire for the injured. Yoel crossed the room and tripped the wire of a booby trap; the explosion knocked him unconscious and set him on fire. Harazi, who had been protected from the blast by a pillar, was unhurt and ran to Yoel just as another bomb was thrown through a window. Shrapnel wounded Harazi in the legs and face, but he got out and ran 50 yds. back to the medic unit. "Eyal is lying in there burning!" he shouted to the medics...
...bomb that exploded near a Madrid stadium shortly before a European Champions' League football match. The attack came a day after police said they had dismantled ETA's international financial network with the arrest of 11 Batasuna Party activists. Fifteen people were slightly injured in the blast, but the match kicked off on schedule, allowing Real Madrid to qualify over Barcelona...
TUNISIA Djerba Evidence Authorities confirmed that an explosion that killed 16 people outside Africa's oldest synagogue was deliberate and said the act was planned by a man suspected of links to international Islamic groups. Investigators said the blast, caused by an exploding fuel truck, was similar to the attack on the U.S. embassy in Tanzania. Police arrested an uncle of the truck driver, accusing him of complicity in the incident...