Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called Endgame, "Rather difficult and elliptic, mostly depending on the power of the text to claw, more inhuman than Godot." Akalaitis humanizes Beckett's inhuman text. While Beckett clearly implies that his play occurs after a nuclear holocaust. Akalaitis attempts to describe physically the status of man after the bomb. She skirts the intellectuality that Beckett's bare setting forces on the play by giving the characters an identifiable environment and downplaying the metaphysical cleverness of the dialogue...
...public reaction of condemning or condoning the role of technology in a disjointed consideration of each issue creates extremist factions that confuse the context in which they fight. What all of these issues cry out for is not simplistic slogans like "Ban the Bomb" or "Right to Life," but a vast reworking of the way technological change brings itself to bear on society. The point is not to abandon the condemn/condone way of dealing with science ethics issues, but to see its inadequacy, to recognize that the rapidly changing and overwhelming new powers of science radically overturn...
Squat, gray and fortress-like, the twelve-year-old U.S. embassy in Bogotá is designed to withstand the most withering of terrorist bomb attacks. The building was put to the test last week: a white Fiat, packed with 33 Ibs. of dynamite, exploded just outside the employee parking lot. The blast killed a Colombian woman standing near by, knocked down several 50-year-old eucalyptus trees and blew out windows in a 15-story office building a block away. But it did not crack a single pane of the shatterproof glass in the embassy or injure...
That sort of security is useful nowadays in Bogotá. U.S. and Colombian authorities believe the bombing was the work not of leftist, anti-U.S. terrorists, but of a powerful Colombian drug mafia intent on discouraging recent efforts by the two governments to curb the country's multibillion-dollar cocaine and marijuana industry. In response to a U.S.-Colombian move to extradite 78 Colombian dealers to face charges in the U.S., unnamed drug barons three weeks ago threatened to kill five Americans for every Colombian extradited. Colombian police believe that the prime target of last week...
...Hitler and from 1957 to 1963 NATO commander of allied land forces in Central Europe; of pneumonia; at his home in Bad Honnef, outside Bonn, West Germany. One of Germany's military elite, Speidel became disgusted with Hitler's conduct of the war and joined the unsuccessful bomb plot to kill the Nazi dictator at Hitler's East Prussia headquarters. Remaining silent under interrogation, Speidel survived the subsequent Gestapo inquisition. When West Germany's army was finally rebuilt in the mid-1950s, he was called to help and became one of NATO's most respected...