Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MORE THAN a week later, the suicide car-bomb that blasted the U.S. embassy in Lebanon continues to send a message far beyond, the rattled windows of Beirut. It has become clear that our government is incapable of learning from the past, and that the present Administration's efforts against terrorism have done little more than provide a speech topic for high officials...
...prayer meeting to commemorate the death of Steven Biko, a black student leader who died in a South African prison seven years ago. Police broke up the meeting with whips and tear gas. The next day in Soweto they shot and killed a black man who threw a gasoline bomb at a police bus. The shooting brought the number killed in the riots to 41. In Durban, six political activists whom the government was trying to detain fled to the British consulate, where they were granted sanctuary. The wife of one of the men is Ela Ramgobin, granddaughter of Mahatma...
...South did not expect the aid to be delivered. But there were signs that the government in Pyongyang really may be trying to improve its relations with Seoul, even if only slightly. The North Koreans are still trying to undo the damage caused by their involvement in the bomb blast in Burma last year that killed 17 visiting South Koreans, many of them top officials, but missed the most obvious target, South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan. Overlooking such examples of past hatreds, the two sides decided to schedule aid talks for this week in Panmunjom, in the Demilitarized Zone...
Last week's unrest was not restricted to the black townships. A bomb ripped through the Johannesburg offices of the Department of Internal Affairs, injuring four people. It was the latest in a series of terrorist acts that have afflicted the city since June 15, the eve of the anniversary of the Soweto riots. Two days later another explosion hit an electrical substation 65 miles to the northwest of the city. At almost the same time, police discovered a powerful limpet mine, made of plastic explosives, that had been placed in the building that houses the Rand Supreme Court...
...Roman Catholic spokesman called the practice of AID "morally unacceptable," while a newspaper columnist denounced restrictions on pregnancy as "ludicrously inconsistent." But unless such differences are settled, warned Sir John Peel, former president of the British Medical Association, society will confront "the brink of something almost like the atomic bomb...