Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theme than your article on cholesterol [MEDICINE, March 26]. This is public service as one might always wish it. A recent study of schoolchildren in New York and Los Angeles shows that their cholesterol levels are about 35% higher than they ought to be. This is when the time bomb begins to click...
...notorious was Kathy Boudin, a member of the violent Weather Underground during the late 1960s. Daughter of prominent New York Civil Rights Attorney Leonard Boudin, she had been a fugitive since 1970, when she fled from a Greenwich Village town house that was destroyed by the explosion of a bomb factory secreted inside. Boudin pleaded innocent to charges of robbery and murder in the Brink's case, in which a company guard and two local policemen were killed. Last week, in a dramatic change of heart, Boudin admitted her guilt and accepted a sentencing deal that will keep...
DIED. Dennis Keogh, 44, career U.S. State Department official, and Lieut. Colonel Kenneth Crabtree, 45; in a terrorist bomb explosion at a gas station just outside Oshakati, Namibia. Both were members of a U.S. liaison team monitoring the cease-fire in Namibia. South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) guerrillas were blamed by South African officials for the attack, but denied the charge...
Reagan's China trip is but another chapter in his how-to book on leadership by image manipulation. The President survives a bomb attack in Lebanon by invading Grenada, tempers anti-interventionist sentiment in El Salvador by staging marginally democratic election there, and turns the tables on criticism of his terrorist policies in Nicaragua by announcing a stepped-up anti-terrorist policy himself. Now China, but if you close your eyes, you can make it go away...
...into "the warriors" and "the victims." Shaped by experiences such as those Dyson describes, the two groups largely speak past each other; little communication is possible. The warriors' basic belief is "Don't rock the boat," for they see war as a necessary evil. The victims cry "Ban the bomb," since they well know the destruction of past wars. Dyson sees both sides, and contends that neither the warriors nor the victims will be able to effect any fruitful change without the other...