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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their object was, of course, to kill. In that they succeeded, unleashing a blast that could be heard miles away as it blew them apart, killing four Israelis and wounding almost 200 more. For the second time in six weeks, paramedics and police raced to handle grisly carnage on Jerusalem's streets: a little girl's body lying mangled in an alley, a headless corpse resting nearby, arms and legs scattered everywhere, blood sprayed on the front of a bank, bits of flesh left for ultra-Orthodox volunteers to scoop up for burial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBRIGHT: CAN SHE HELP? | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

...packed with rusty screws and nails. Three seconds later, the second man exploded his suitcase bomb along an open street crammed with lunchtime shoppers. "This is madness," cried an anguished onlooker amid the tangle of human limbs, blackened flesh, crushed fruit and building rubble. The blasts also blew away the lower portions of the bombers' bodies, leaving their still unidentified faces gruesomely intact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOAKED IN BLOOD | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

Last August, when SADDAM'S tanks crushed the Iraqi National Congress and blew apart a CIA support operation, embarrassed U.S. officials blamed INC infighting. True, a Kurdish INC faction did invite the dictator back into northern Iraq's no-go zone. But documents obtained by TIME suggest that by failing to match tough words with tough deeds, the U.S. helped bring on the rout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: GORE TO REBELS: WE'RE WITH YOU, MAYBE | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

Observers reported two loud explosions at about 5:45 p.m. at the intersection of Hampshire St. and Cardinal Madeiras Way. The underground blasts blew off a utility entry port cover, releasing a five-story cloud of brown and blue smoke...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade and Barbara E. Martinez, S | Title: Blast Kills One, Downs Power In Cambridge | 8/8/1997 | See Source »

...would pay to see the garish, crimson shag-carpeted house of a has-been rock star. Now Priscilla reversed herself, acting, she says, on faith as well as a sentimental attachment to what had been, after all, her nuptial home. While their bankers looked on aghast, she and Soden blew the last of the estate's cash, $560,000, on their own plan to open Graceland to the public--a smart move, as it turned out. EPE made back its full investment in a mere 38 days when Graceland opened its doors for tours in 1982 at $5 a head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOVE ME LEGAL TENDER | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

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