Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minutes later, a second bomb blast transformed the nearby Tavern in the Town into an even grislier scene. The shock waves of the explosion rebounded between the walls of the underground pub, turning flying debris into deadly missiles. Water poured onto the floor and the ceiling fell, as frantic survivors stumbled toward the exit over the bodies of the dead and maimed. Susan Edkin, 18, and her fiance were celebrating their engagement. "People were shouting and screaming," she said later. "I remember there was a man lying on the floor who couldn't see because his eyes had gone...
...explosions were also clearly part of a larger I.R.A. effort-inaugurated in March of last year with a bomb blast at the Old Bailey in London -to bring more of Ulster's terror to Britain. Although there are still doubts within the I.R.A. councils about the wisdom of this policy, it has given new exposure to the Provisional' campaign, which is lagging and stalemated at home. Their supporters are much less likely to criticize the Proves for bloodiness in Birmingham than they are for terror in Ulster...
Freedom of Information Act is alive, well and helping information seekers to blast facts out of the Washington bureaucracy just as it was supposed to. Though information seekers have begun to crack the stone wall of official secrecy, they have still been meeting adamantine resistance. Many Government bureaucracies have continued to use all available weapons, tactics, loopholes and weaknesses in the law to maintain their sheltered ways...
...talk in New Delhi was of arms control and trade concessions. India refused to sign the 1968 Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons on the ground that it discriminated against nuclear have-not nations. Since the May 18 blast that signaled India's emergence as the world's sixth nuclear power, Kissinger has expressed concern over what he calls "the export of explosive technology." He worried that India might share its nuclear expertise with politically volatile Arab countries in exchange for much-needed oil concessions...
Townsend's blast points to a potentially serious political problem for the President: the businessmen who have been his strong supporters may desert him if a recession really begins to bite. Last week Administration aides hinted that Ford may modify his package of anti-inflation proposals, notably the 5% income surtax, if the economic situation warrants it. But the feeling so far is by no means unanimous, even among auto executives, who mostly declined to join Townsend's attack on the Ford program. Speaking at an automotive engineers' convention last week, Ford Motor President Lee Iacocca said...