Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Missile-guidance computer programs so complex that they can be written and tested only by other computer programs. A laser weapon that can release death rays in the nanoseconds before it is obliterated by its own power source, an atom bomb. A jet fighter that can understand the pilot's spoken commands...
Indeed, as the drug busters step up their campaign, they find themselves targeted more and more often for reprisals by multimillionaire cocaine czars. Last November alone, Washington's efforts were menaced on three separate fronts. In Colombia, a bomb exploded under a car parked outside the U.S. embassy in Bogota, killing a woman and, when backed up by telephoned death threats, causing 17 U.S. officials and their families to leave the country. In Peru, 19 members of a U.S.-sponsored program to eradicate coca bushes in the wilds of the Amazon jungle were killed, four of them, the State Department...
Papandreou arrived in Moscow at a time when his relations with the U.S. have deteriorated to the point of public bickering. The bombing of a bar in an Athens suburb two weeks ago, in which more than 30 Americans, many from a nearby military base, were injured, prompted Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger to comment, "This is one of those things you tend to get when all this anti-American sentiment is stirred up." A Greek government spokesman fired back, "It is rather Mr. Weinberger who should be condemned for an anti- Greek campaign." Athens police still do not know...
...South Koreans had "changed the plan several times, the last time being less than 30 minutes before Kim's plane arrived." The South Koreans are highly security conscious, all the more so since the 1983 incident in Rangoon, Burma, when several South Korean Cabinet ministers were killed by a bomb supposedly set by agents from Communist North Korea. Added to that was the guards' obvious animosity toward Kim. Explaining that Kim would not be passing through a VIP area at the airport, one agent told reporters bluntly...
...given it special qualities of endurance. The monument has settled only about two inches in its century, though it was built perilously near a swamp. It is struck by lightning dozens of times each year. One crazed man scared everybody a few years ago when he threatened to bomb the structure...