Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...private industry to become involved in defense contracting. One firm that responded was Explosives Industrials Cardoen, a small company that was then producing explosives for use in mining. After developing an armored personnel carrier based on the 24.5-ton Swiss-made Mowag, Cardoen started building a 500-lb. cluster bomb. Before reaching the ground, it releases up to 300 bomblets that can cover an area the size of ten football fields...
Cardoen, which exports around $70 million worth of arms a year, won out as Iraq's cluster-bomb supplier against stiff competition from U.S., British and French companies...
...room exploded like a fire bomb, and the youngsters ran out of the house screaming, their bodies aflame. Neighbors, who called paramedics, said the children were so charred that they seemed to be covered with mud. The brothers' friend had the most severe injuries: he died two days later. The Selbys' condition was also grim, with scorched skin over 97% of their bodies. At least 83% of the wounds were of the most serious kind: third-degree burns in which both the upper and lower layers of the skin, the epidermis and dermis, are destroyed and there...
...magenta will soon go on sale in a gigantic flea market. The saddest figure in Los Angeles was the honored policeman who wanted to be a hero or at least to be noticed by his superiors. Officer James W. Pearson, 40, was at first credited with disarming a bomb he found in a wheel well of the Turkish team's bus, but later was charged with planting...
...more than a mile from the previous embassy site. But no fanfare attended either event. Since U.S. servicemen first arrived in Lebanon almost two years ago, 265 of them have lost their lives in a cause they could never quite explain. In addition, 17 Americans died when a car bomb shattered the old U.S. embassy in April...