Word: bomb
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...worst terrorist onslaught in any single day since India became independent 38 years ago. Within hours after the first bomb exploded, police blamed the rash of attacks on terrorists belonging to India's Sikh minority, which for the past three years has been agitating for greater autonomy. Sikh terrorists had last, and most spectacularly, struck in New Delhi on Oct. 31, 1984, when two bodyguards, both Sikhs, assassinated Prime Minister Indira Gandhi as she was walking from her residence to a television interview in her garden. Now, declared Home Minister S.B. Chavan, "a coordinated, well- planned operation has been launched...
...unified command, and charged that given the sophistication of the onslaught, some of the terrorists were "foreign trained." Most of the explosive devices used in the attacks were hidden in transistor radios casually left in public places. Unsuspecting passersby picked them up and turned them on--and then the bombs exploded. Eyewitnesses said that shortly before the blasts in the terminal, a Sikh had boarded the bus, left a radio on a seat and got off just before departure time; similar accounts were given in connection with other incidents. One man unwittingly carried such a bomb 150 miles, from Chandigarh...
...sense of unease that was so evident throughout the day--that indeed had been building for two weeks--had been heightened by four bomb blasts in Dusseldorf and Cologne. On Saturday a march in Bonn sponsored by the leftist Green political party attracted 7,000 political radicals, peace activists and leather-jacketed punkers. They carried banners with anti-NATO and pro- Communist slogans. Police charged one group of marchers burning an American flag in Munsterplatz, a cobblestoned pedestrian mall in the city center, and used tear gas to break up some of the crowd. In the ensuing melee, eleven officers...
...West. But his attention is already turning westward, across Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay, over the American landmass, toward the Pacific and beyond. The New Yorker once again has asked him to visit and write about Hiroshima, 40 years after the city was destroyed by a single bomb and 39 years after Hersey marked the first anniversary of atomic warfare with the most celebrated piece of journalism to come out of World War II. Hiroshima filled the magazine's entire August 31, 1946, issue. Published in hardcover soon after, the terse account of unnatural disaster established its author...
...attack aimed at U.S. military personnel who regularly eat at the restaurant. No Americans were killed, but eleven were injured. Two newspapers later received telephone calls claiming that ETA, the Basque separatist group, was responsible. Calls to Madrid radio stations claimed that an urban terrorist group called GRAPO had bombed the restaurant. Although officials said there was no evidence that these groups were involved, they said they were "working on the theory that it could be a terrorist bomb...