Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's speech was carefully timed. It would, hopefully, stand in favorable contrast to the bomb-rattling talk that almost always accompanies major Communist conclaves; the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is meeting this week, and the Russians and Chinese Reds will get together next month to try to iron out their differences. And the President's proposals would surely add to the acclaim he receives on his imminent European trip...
...night before Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt was to dedicate a new archbishop's palace in Ciudad Bolívar, 275 miles southeast of Caracas, two men were caught planting a time bomb behind a wall near the speakers' platform. Who were they? Members of the Communist Party, and allies of Cuba's Fidel Castro. His patience stretched to the breaking point, Betancourt at first ordered the arrest of every one of the country's estimated 40,000 Communists, Castroites and far-leftists, but later amended the order to cover only "activists...
Prices were soaring in the wake of the war, strikes were frequent, and postwar revolutions in Europe were making everybody jittery. Many people were sure the Reds were planning a revolution in the U.S. any day. There was a spate of ugly bombings; a clumsy plot to assassinate many top American officials was uncovered; and one Senator's maid had her hands blown off when she opened a package containing a bomb...
...railroad station outside Montreal last February. "The revolution has started," said one of the arsonists as he watched the flames. They then sent a communique to Montreal newspapers declaring their mission: "To completely destroy, by systematic sabotage, all the symbols of colonial institutions." From arson the band moved to bombing-the creation of public impact by dynamite. FLQ targets were such "colonial" institutions as armories, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and army buildings. On April 20 an army recruiting center nightwatchman was killed when he attempted to remove a bomb planted in a garbage can outside the building. Four weeks later...
Gordon Churchill, 64, Defense Minister in John Diefenbaker's defeated Conservative government, was rambling through what seemed to be an expectable Opposition speech in Parliament. Then, with Diefenbaker sitting near by and without changing his tone, he threw a bomb that reverberated across the country. He read a letter supposedly written last January to Liberal Leader Lester Pearson by U.S. Ambassador W. Walton Butterworth Jr., blatantly siding with Pearson's Liberals in the political campaign...