Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...score was soon settled, however. Last Monday morning a packed bus carrying students and police officers was plodding through northern Jerusalem. At 7:55 an Arab passenger sitting in the back detonated a bomb containing about 10 lbs. of the chemical explosive 3-acetone. The blast was so powerful that it destroyed not only the bus in which the bomber was riding but another traveling alongside it as well. In addition to himself, the terrorist succeeded in killing four passengers, including a visiting American; 107 others were wounded. Israeli security experts were shocked. One high-ranking intelligence official lamented...
After a three-month lull, the battle between Hamas and its foes has again been joined. The blast in Ramat Gan, which killed six Israelis, and now the one in Jerusalem have conjured up images of last fall and early winter, when Palestinian attacks, mostly suicide bombings, claimed 53 victims over four months. The violence nearly sank the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, as Israeli public opinion turned against expanding Palestinian self-rule. Now the question is again alive: Will the bloodletting drown the goodwill? "The peace process will go on," says a U.S. State Department official, "but how long...
...powerful car bomb killed 11 people in northern India, including Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, outside government headquarters. New Delhi bureau chief Dick Thompson reports that the blast destroyed three vehicles, broke windows in nearby buildings, and ripped Singh and his guards' bodies. The murders are ironic: "Singh and his police chief were widely credited with ending years of violence in Punjab. That success was shared by the man who engineered Singh's election, India's Prime Minister Rao. Now, Rao's anti-terrorism accomplishment seems to have been blown apart also." Though no group has claimed responsibility...
...diplomacy when our diplomacy isn't showing much," he complained loudly. Within days, the White House announced his decision to press for a stiffer NATO response to Serb aggression. Clinton is skilled with a driver and loves nothing more than to put his weight into his swing and blast a ball 250 yds. off the tee. His weakness is his short game and a tendency to "chili dip"-mishit the ball on chip shots so that it dribbles just a few yards. Passing tourists beware: When Clinton and Erskine Bowles, his deputy chief of staff and regular golf partner, take...
...suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a government building in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, killing 22 people and wounding 50 others. The police said the blast was set off by a Tamil separatist fighting for a homeland in the northeast of the country...