Word: blows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Heng Samrin, who is widely considered to be a Vietnamese puppet. From Hanoi's point of view, the operation was a success: between 89 and 103 guerrillas were killed or wounded in the action, while Vietnamese casualties were presumed to be much lighter. Moreover, the attack dealt a blow to the Khmer Front, the major non-Communist element in the close to 60,000-member guerrilla coalition that is continuing to resist the 1978 Vietnamese invasion of Kampuchea...
...from us revulsion; crimes of need (like Jean Valjean's) sympathy; but crimes for fun, for a video game, for no purpose, elicit rage. John Hinckley Jr. did more damage in a minute than these four combined had done in a lifetime. But there could be no satisfaction in blowing him away. Blow these four away, and you are ready to run for mayor...
...decision pleased the crowd, but it enraged one man who had placed $11 on Commodore. Loudly he threatened to blow up the track if he did not get his winnings. Policemen threw him out, and peace seemed to be restored. Moments later a rocket-propelled grenade fired by an unidentified gunner hit the track, sending spectators and Thoroughbreds scurrying in every direction. No one was injured, but the track was shut down again until further notice...
...gray-suited and blow-dried, Pittman is executive vice president and chief operating officer of MTV Networks Inc., a joint venture of Warner Communications and American Express. He earns $200,000 a year, and has stock options valued at $1.8 million. He has the job because he invented it, because he and his audience are all what he calls the TV babies...
Perhaps the most chilling image was the truck bomb, with its driver and vehicle wired to explode to kingdom come. In September, the rig came hurtling at the U.S. embassy annex in East Beirut, but a well-aimed shot by a bodyguard caused it to blow up short of its main target and kept casualties low. Religious fanaticism played a part in the hijacking of Kuwait Airways Flight 221, when gun-toting youths, their eyes staring coldly out of paper masks, riveted the world's attention on a Tehran tarmac for six days. Affiliations were never declared, but the hoodlums...