Word: bomb
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...civilian government, the head of Argentina's atomic energy commission, Rear Admiral Carlos Castro Madero, made an announcement that U.S. experts had been warily expecting for some time: Argentina has become the tenth nation capable of producing enriched uranium and thus of making an atomic bomb. The others: the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain, France and China, which have bombs, plus West Germany, The Netherlands, Japan and South Africa...
...YORK--Richard Todd fired two touchdown passes to Wesley Walker, including a tie-breaking 64-yard bomb in the third period, to lift the New York Jets over the punch less New England Patriots, 26-3, yesterday...
...calling itself the Armed Resistance Unit took responsibility for the explosion. In a communique sent to National Public Radio, the terrorists said their motive was to protest U.S. "imperialism" in Lebanon, Grenada, El Salvador and Nicaragua. The FBI believes the group may be linked to nearly a dozen similar bomb attacks on public buildings over the past two years...
Ironically, many of the new security measures were about to be put into effect anyway. The clampdown was prompted by an incident in October 1982, when an overwrought Israeli youth was seized in the crowded House of Representatives gallery while attempting to detonate a homemade bomb concealed under his shirt...
Last week's explosion was the first successful bomb attack on the Capitol since the radical Weather Underground took responsibility for blowing up a men's room in 1971,* but several other attempts have been narrowly averted since then...