Word: blows
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...Nature report may have delivered a fatal blow to the theory. British and Canadian astrophysicists, reanalyzing data taken in 1983 by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, found that superclusters of thousands of galaxies, interrupted by voids some 200 million light-years across, are common in the visible universe. Scientists do not believe the force of cold dark matter alone could have worked fast enough to create structures so large. Even 20 billion years is not enough time for thousands of galaxies to have clumped together in the way the theory says...
...rules provide for a complex appeal and allow for an ultimate right to publish, the process could delay stories by days. All interviews would have to be scheduled in advance and conducted on the record -- a deterrent to whistle blowers, and a new rule since Vietnam. In a blow to broadcasters, the Pentagon would virtually ban conveying the sights and sounds of casualties...
...Palestinian from Iraq named Adnan Awad walked into the U.S. embassy in Bern, Switzerland, and announced that he had just left a bomb in his Geneva hotel room. He said he had been ordered by the May 15 Organization, a Baghdad-based terrorist group known to intelligence agencies, to blow up the Geneva Noga Hilton. But when he arrived in Geneva, he found he could not go through with it. Now he was appealing to the U.S. for help...
Rashid and Abu Ibrahim alternately cajoled and browbeat Awad into agreeing to blow up the Geneva Noga Hilton, which Abu Ibrahim said was owned by a Jew who he claimed sent a lot of money to Israel. Realizing he had got in over his head, Awad began avoiding Abu Ibrahim. Then one morning Awad went to his construction site at Baghdad's military airport and found that he and his 60 workers were locked out. The officer in charge said he had orders to shut down the job until Awad talked to Abu Ibrahim again...
...Israelis had a different idea. They saw Awad's defection as a chance to blow a hole in the Palestinian underground. Israeli officials asked to speak to Awad alone, and they gave him a lie-detector test. Then they made an offer. "Your life is at a dead end," a Mossad officer told him. The Israelis would give him $5 million to start a new life in Paris. There he would continue to be involved with the Palestinian freedom fighters, and to boost his credibility, the Swiss would make it look as though he had carried out his mission...