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...reporting on the little-known incident last week, after having sifted through documents newly made available by the Freedom of Information Act, the Albuquerque Journal said conventional explosives used in the bomb's trigger did detonate but failed to set off a thermonuclear blast. A Defense Department official sought to put the best possible light on what could have been a calamity by saying the failure of the bomb to explode "confirms the efficacy of the safety devices...
...will give way under mounting water pressure behind it, there is no guarantee. He suggests that a channel be dug from the lake to the sea, bypassing the Situk so that the trapped water can escape without affecting the river. Others propose bombing the glacier: controlled explosions could blast a trench through the ice itself. But speed may be essential. Says Powell: "We're just now entering the rainy season, and at the rate it's filling, the lake could be ready to make its jump by the end of this year." Experts say, however, it will take a year...
...claimed to have crushed two Iraqi-sponsored "terrorist networks," made up of both monarchists and leftist guerrillas, that Tehran held responsible for the bombings. In London, another bomb shattered a video store belonging to Reza Fazeli, a vocal Khomeini critic. Tehran and the mujahedin blamed each other for the blast, which killed Fazeli's 22-year-old son Bijan...
...notable exception of France), and some analysts think the U.S. should be more flexible. Former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger faults the Administration for "losing the initiative" in the arms-control game. He suggests that the U.S. resist a complete moratorium but negotiate either an agreement for a lower test- blast ceiling (up to 15 kilotons) or a quota system limiting the number of detonations...
...East's most feared and persistent terrorists. Shadowy radical Shi'ite groups, like Islamic Jihad, have claimed responsibility for a murderous catalog of suicide bomb attacks, skyjackings and kidnapings. Among them: the April 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in West Beirut that killed 63, including 17 Americans; the blast six months later that reduced the barracks of the U.S. Marine peacekeeping force to rubble, killing 241; and the June 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 and the subsequent hostage drama involving 39 American passengers...