Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...against ter rorism. On his way to work, Beckurts and the driver of his gray BMW limousine were killed 875 yards from his home when a hidden roadside bomb blew the vehicle across the road and into a fence. A letter filled with Marxist jargon was found near the blast, and identified those responsible for the attack as West Germany's Red Army Faction. The letter claimed that Beckurts, a participant in technical meetings on the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars, represented "the current phase of the entire imperialistic system...
...such explosions since June 12, three people have been killed and more than 120 injured. At Magoo's Bar in Durban's Parade Hotel, where a bomb went off last month, special window glass has since been installed. Lance Davidson, a university student who was slightly injured in the blast, assured patrons last week, "Don't worry, you're safe in here...
...know what it was" and not react militarily. Their detectors could distinguish between a nuclear explosion, which generates million-degree temperatures, X rays and gamma rays, and an exploding meteor, which would produce considerably lower temperatures and no deadly radiation. But smaller nations, unaware of the nature of the blast, might react violently. Says Shoemaker: "Suppose it happens over Syria or Pakistan?" He proposes that the U.S. immediately try to determine whether the explosion was of cosmic origin and notify the affected nation...
This century has already seen a major meteorite blast. In 1908, either an asteroid or a comet exploded about five miles above the remote Stony Tunguska River region of Siberia, igniting and flattening trees over hundreds of square miles. From descriptions of the blast and photographs of the damage, scientists have estimated that the object was at least 200 ft. across and caused a twelve-megaton explosion...
...Arab diplomats entering the divided city from the East. The heightened security was a response to the April 5 bombing of West Berlin's La Belle disco, in which an American soldier was killed. The U.S. charged that Libyan diplomats based in East Berlin had helped plan the blast. But East Germany's passive acceptance of the new vigilance masked a determination to even the score. Last week East German border guards started demanding that Western diplomats show their passports in order to leave or enter East Berlin...