Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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UMass effectively put the Crimson away in a roughly 10-minute span of the first quarter, looking nothing like a team that had lost its previous two games by a combined score of 62-13. Minuteman quarterback Jim Simcone capped his first offensive series with a 35-yard bomb to older brother and split end Bob. With Harvard cornerback John Dailey caught turning the wrong way, Simcone hauled it in and sauntered across the line...
...some point emotions could boil over. Two years ago, Red Army Faction terrorists fired an antitank grenade at a car carrying General Frederick Kroesen, then Commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe. "Some of these people will do anything," says a Frankfurt-based soldier. "It takes only one bomb attack for you and your wife to be afraid for months...
...visited the city of Krefeld last June, his car was stoned by so-called chaotics, militant rabblerousers who have attached themselves to the peace movement. In Wiesbaden last month, a member of the Green Party poured a jar of his blood over U.S. Lieut. General Paul Williams. Later, a bomb exploded in a U.S. officers' club near Hahn, and on the same day, antimissile activists tried to disrupt the annual air show at the U.S. Air Force Base at Ramstein...
MEXICO. The country that nearly ignited the debt bomb in August 1982, when it came close to defaulting on $85 billion in foreign borrowings, has been straightening out its finances. Last month it repaid a $1.85 billion loan just two weeks after successfully rescheduling $11.4 billion of public debt. Nevertheless, Mexico's gross national product is expected to drop by 3% to 5% this year, and inflation is raging at an annual rate of about...
...interest that the debtor countries adjust and grow," said he. "But we have not committed ourselves to expending vast increases in resources on their behalf, because we do not have them." Nevertheless, by pressing their interests without raising threats, the delegates may have helped to keep the debt bomb from going...