Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tense, confrontational atmosphere which characterized the Vietnam era, 300 students seized control of University Hall in what they considered the most effective way to blast Harvard's support for the ROTC while protesting University expansion into Cambridge neighborhoods...
...Harvard right fielder-turned-center fielder-turned-right-fielder Chris McAndrews made two big catches in the top of the ninth inning, including one diving, over-the-wall snag of a Mike Lubowitz blast, and the batsmen eeked out a 4-3 victory in front of 39 chilly fans at Soldiers Field...
...scheduled for this Tuesday is code-named Mighty Oak. If all goes as planned, a U.S. nuclear device will explode in a tunnel beneath the dry lake beds of Nevada, some 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. On the scale of modern tests, it rates as a penny-ante blast, releasing a mere 20 kilotons of explosive power, equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT. Such a test usually does nothing more than rattle the china in a few Nevada closets. But this time the shock waves could reverberate around the world...
...preliminary answer should be forthcoming promptly. On Tuesday--possibly just as the U.S. nuclear test blast is going off--Anatoli Dobrynin, who is departing after 24 years as Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., is scheduled to call at the White House for a talk with Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz. U.S. officials hope Dobrynin, who is taking up a Kremlin post as a senior adviser to Gorbachev, will be carrying a message that could get private discussions going again after months of what diplomats brand "megaphone diplomacy." Indeed, Dobrynin reportedly has been empowered to set a date...
...week's end, when an explosion shattered an aviation oil storage tank at a joint U.S.-Korean air base at Osan, 37 miles south of Seoul, U.S. military authorities were not immediately able to determine what caused the blast. Fifteen people were killed, including a U.S. serviceman. Meanwhile, both Chun and his opponents pursued their campaigns while moving in opposite directions. As the demonstrators were gathering at Taegu, Chun was setting off for Europe as the first Korean leader in history to make state visits to Britain, France and West Germany. The trip will almost certainly buoy the country...