Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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December." Air raid sirens wail almost continuously. During one 15-hour period in the Punjab, there were eleven airraid alerts. One all-clear was sounded by the jittery control room before the warning blast was given. The nervousness, though, was justified: two towns in the area had been bombed with a large loss of life as Pakistani air force planes zipped repeatedly across the border. Included in their attacks was the city of Amritsar, whose Golden Temple is the holiest of holies to all Sikhs. At Agra, which was bombed in the Pakistanis' first blitz, the Taj Mahal was camouflaged...
...security, and his rhetoric is laced heavily with law-and-order. Yet he stands foursquare with Hubert Humphrey on civil rights. He is for the ABM and the SST, and is considered by some the candidate of the military-industrial community. Yet the vain suit to stop the Amchitka blast was filed under his Environmental Policy Act. Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, the junior Senator from the state of Washington, is, in sum, a bundle of divergent views, who at the same time conveys a solid image, a thoughtful integrity. This week he will become the second surviving declared candidate...
...initial shock did cause numerous cliff falls and rock slides along Amchitka's shoreline. A flurry of barely noticeable tremors followed as the tormented earth adjusted itself around the 800-ft.-wide subterranean cavity created by the blast: 38 hours later, there was a last convulsive shudder as the cavity collapsed. But the danger of radioactive releases was apparently past. The radioactive material is virtually sealed in place by rock compacted by the pressure of the monster explosion...
...underground water seep out of the radioactive blast area? Not for several thousand years, says Dr. James Carothers, and AEC's scientific adviser on the island. As to Cannikin's effect on wildlife, the body count so far includes two sea otters, two seals, 13 birds of various species and an undetermined number of fish. In addition, one peregrine falcon nest and three eagle nests-all unoccupied-were destroyed when the ground heaved around them...
...bomb had gone off just two days earlier in the 39-story Post Office Tower, London's tallest building. The blast caused no injuries but sent glass and masonry crashing almost 500 feet to the street. A telephone caller claimed that the explosion had been set off by a London faction of the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A. leaders in Dublin denied responsibility) and that "the next one will be the Victoria Tower [of Parliament...