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Last week a half-ton of dynamite stashed in a stolen truck exploded outside the headquarters of the DAS, the secret police in overall charge of the coke battle. The blast, which gouged a 30-ft.-deep crater and damaged buildings as far as 40 blocks away, killed at least 52 and injured 1,000. The day before the bombing, a judge involved in prosecuting the drug masters was gunned down while strolling the streets of Medellin. And nine days earlier, the narcos planted a bomb that ripped apart an Avianca jetliner en route from Bogota to Cali, claiming...
...British firms, Racal Acoustics and Plessey, sell antinoise headphones that combat cockpit noise in military vehicles, such as the Sea King helicopter and the Warrior attack vehicle. Digisonix, a division of Nelson Industries in Stoughton, Wis., markets units that can be bolted to air ducts to mute the blast of industrial fans and heating and air-conditioning systems. Noise Cancellation Technologies of New York City just announced a joint venture with Tenneco to make electronic mufflers for automobiles and light trucks that can dampen engine boom without reducing engine performance or fuel efficiency...
...rebel request for a United Nations-supervised cease-fire and declared that "the offensive is totally defeated." But as he was making that announcement at an army officers' country club, his words were drowned out by a bomb explosion. Although the President was not in any danger, the blast demonstrated that even he could not take his personal safety for granted...
...most poignant single tragedy befell the small (pop. about 1,200) community of East Coldenham, N.Y., 40 miles northwest of New York City. More than 120 children were eating lunch in the two-story cafeteria of an elementary school when a blast of wind estimated at 100 m.p.h. struck the yellow-brick-and-glass building. A massive section of the south wall crashed into the children in a hail of shattered glass, concrete and falling bricks. Some pupils who had been standing to watch the storm were tossed about like rag dolls. "I heard a whistling sound," said Mike Miller...
...Amex Life Assurance Co. decided to award the money despite the Navy's conclusion that Hartwig may have engineered the blast to commit suicide. But the company disputes the claim by Truitt's lawyer that the payoff disproves the Navy's findings. Said a spokesman: "Amex is not saying that ((Hartwig)) did or did not commit suicide. What Amex is saying is that there is not enough evidence to deny a claim based on suicide...