Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seeking to clear his name after Burger's blast, Rose enlisted the American Civil Liberties Union and a former Associate Attorney General of the U.S., John Shenefield. But in 1985 the Colorado Supreme Court rejected Rose's petition to reopen his case, and earlier this year the U.S. Supreme Court refused review. Undaunted, Rose flew to Washington and sought the help of former Solicitor General Erwin Griswold. Meanwhile, time was running out: Burger announced in June that he intended to retire from the court...
...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...
...home in the wealthy South Florida city of Naples, a powerful pipe bomb exploded between the front seats. Margaret Benson, 63, and her adopted son Scott, 21, were killed immediately. Her daughter Carol Lynn, now 42, was seriously injured but escaped from the car moments before a second bomb blast...
...receipts for a length of 4-in.-diameter pipe ($36.08, including tax) and two pipe endpieces ($28.05 total) of the kind used in the fatal bombs. Steven's sister, her face bearing ugly burn scars from the bombing, told the court that he left the car just before the blast, ostensibly to get something from the house, and kept his back to her as she screamed for help...
...been notably reluctant to act against local drug producers without stronger indications that the U.S. will do something to stem the burgeoning demand of its drug users. The Administration intends as well to provide military support, like the troops and helicopters sent to Bolivia last month. "Operation Blast Furnace" was ridiculed for failing to catch any drug producers, but last week U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia Edward Rowell claimed that the raids achieved a "dramatic impact" on Bolivian cocaine production by shutting down six major labs with a combined production capacity of five tons a week...