Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last Wednesday, a bomb exploded in the posh Belgrano district of Buenos Aires, shattering the windows of an apartment building. Less than 19 hours later, President Raul Alfonsin gazed somberly into a television camera and addressed the people of Argentina. "Professionals of violence," he claimed, were attempting to undermine his government by "creating insecurity, the sensation of impunity, generating the idea that democracy is incapable of defending its citizens." Over the previous six weeks, he charged, these "demented phantoms" had been responsible for 1,806 bomb warnings and 42 explosions. But, he warned, they would not prevail...
...panelists agreed that the nuclear proliferation is primarily a security problem. "We must stop kidding ourselves about our security. We develop more bomb programs when we are insecure," said Roger Molander, the president of the Washington-based Roosevelt Center for American Political Studies...
Tick-Tick-Tick. The bomb squad races in, sweating profusely in their shrapnel-resistant suits...
...elevator en route to his sixth- floor office in Salt Lake City, one arm filled with Cokes and doughnuts for an early-morning meeting. At his office door, Christensen, 31, reached down to pick up a cardboard parcel with his name on it, and a shrapnel-filled bomb inside blew up in his face, killing him. Some 90 minutes later, in the hilly suburb of Holladay southeast of the city, Kathleen Sheets, 50, returned home from a walk. She bent down to pick up a curious package, with her husband's name on it, sitting by the corner...
...salamander angle gained credibility the following day when another pipe bomb critically injured Hofmann as he was climbing into his parked car half a block from Salt Lake City's Temple Square. In the Toyota's blackened interior, investigators found pipes and other equipment for bomb manufacture, as well as rare books and valuable documents relating to the Mormon Church. Hofmann, it seemed, had accidentally set off a bomb of his own making. After eight hours of surgery, Hofmann, who was expected to survive, maintained from his hospital bed that he was a target, not an assailant. But police...