Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five days last week, explosions toppled the statue of a policeman in Chicago's Haymarket Square, ripped apart a courtroom in San Rafael, Calif., a Reserve Officers Training Corps building on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, and damaged an armory in Santa Barbara, Calif. A fifth blast rocked a courthouse in New York City. The Weathermen immediately claimed responsibility for three of the blasts, and it appeared that their boasts were not idle. Equally chilling was the threat from the radical organization of more to come...
...warning of a new outbreak by the dynamite extremists came just a day after the dust from the first explosion at Haymarket Square had cleared. Youth International Party (Yippie) spokesmen in New York produced a tape recording, reportedly sent from Chicago, claiming that the Haymarket blast was the beginning of "a fall offensive of youth resistance that will spread from Santa Barbara to Boston, back to Kent and Kansas." The speaker was identified as Fugitive Bernardine Dohrn, 28, who is accused of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for assault and participating in mob actions. She has been in hiding since...
...Chicago Days of Rage in October 1969, few have failed to take the bomb-happy organization seriously. But the timing and breadth of the latest explosions lend an even more ominous tone to the desperate threats of Bernardine Dohrn's taped message. "It is our job to blast away the myths of the total superiority of the Man," she said. In pursuing that fantasy, the bombers are more likely to destroy whatever patience remains in a nation already too tense for its own good...
...third-floor blast, at 12:50 a. m. Thursday, knocked a University police sergeant to the ground as he was searching the first floor of the CFIA. He described the bomb as a "a muffled sound that lasted only a couple of seconds." But people four blocks away heard the explosion. The blast knocked out third floor windows, blew out part of the ceiling, and knocked over stacks of books. Three offices- 309, 310, and 311- were completely destroyed...
...building was unoccupied at the time of the blast. Two students were studying in the biology labs next door but left the building before the bomb exploded...