Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With shouts, toss of torchlights, swept in a blast...
...Protestant extremist group, the Young Militants-an obscure offshoot of larger paramilitary groups-claimed responsibility for the Strand bar blast. The carnage took Ulster past another grisly milestone: 1,206 dead, including 866 civilians, since 1968, when Catholics began demonstrating for equal rights. This month alone there have been 119 shootings and bombings, with 21 killed and 170 injured...
Late that night, Shigeto reached home to find his wife and two children safe. But his reunion was a brief one. Five of his 27 colleagues at the hospital had been killed in the blast; for the next two months Shigeto was so busy treating survivors that he could not return home to visit his family...
That knowledge was of little help in treating the bomb victims. Doctors at that time had only scanty knowledge about the effects of atomic radiation. But Shigeto and his colleagues soon became experts. Within weeks after the blast, patients began turning up at the hospital complaining tearfully that their hair had fallen out overnight. Their hair eventually grew back, but other problems remained. Doctors began to notice an increasing incidence of leukemia, a cancer of the blood-forming cells. Over the years, they have found among Hiroshimans a greater than normal occurrence of other cancers as well...
...city's ordeal, Shigeto has been so impressed by the strength and courage displayed by Hiroshima's victims that he has unbounded faith in man's prospects for survival. That feeling was bolstered recently when he learned that the first two victims he treated after the blast are still alive today...