Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that backward nations could learn a lesson from the "moral fortitude of [South African Prime Minister] Pete Botha's regime," which he calls "the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers." He adds that the approval of $6 million in aid to the Nicaraguan contras, on the condition that they bomb Managua's leading manufacturer of designer sunglasses, is "a victory for the United St--I mean, democracy everywhere...
First, the sophomore hit a long range bomb, and after a pair of free throws by Crimson center Bill Mohler, Mackay hit another to put Dartmouth on top to stay. A lay-in after a steal and two more bombs finished the virtuoso performance--and finished the Crimson's chances as well...
...Soviet Union, which does not report its air accidents): 1,948, far beyond the previous 1974 record of 1,299. The disaster was also the second to strike American troops assigned to peacekeeping roles in the fractious Middle East. On Oct. 23, 1983, a terrorist's suicidal truck-bomb attack on a Marine headquarters in Beirut killed 241 servicemen. Though a Lebanon-based terror group, Islamic Jihad, claimed it had caused the latest crash with a bomb, Canadian officials quickly discouraged speculation that sabotage may have been involved. Pentagon officials agreed with that early assessment...
Former South Dakota Senator James Abourezk, founder and head of the ADC, agrees. The fire, he said last week, "must surely be linked" to two recent bombings aimed at his group. In August two Boston police officers were badly injured while trying to defuse a bomb found outside the ADC's office. After the Achille Lauro hijacking in October, the ADC's West Coast director Alex Odeh, 41, was fatally wounded after he appeared on Cable News Network saying it was time for Americans to "understand the Palestinian side of the story." When he opened the door to the organization...
...registered his complaint, the FBI had begun to look for a wider connection. Characterizing the attack that killed Odeh as "terrorist," an FBI spokesman said that the Jewish Defense League, a militant pro-Israel organization, is "the possible responsible group" for Odeh's assassination as well as two separate bombings of suspected Nazis last summer. One of those blasts proved fatal: in Paterson, N.J., Tscherin Soobzokov, 61, a veteran of the Nazi Waffen SS, was injured by a bomb that detonated when he opened his front door. He died a month later. The Los Angeles Times has reported that...