Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the 20 seconds of intensive shaking, which registered 6.5 on the Richter scale, was far short of the blockbuster so long predicted for California, the temblor turned peaceful Coalinga into a smoldering ruin. Said John Bunker, 70, owner of a downtown stationery store: "It was like a bomb dropped." At least 47 people were injured, 300 buildings were demolished, and property damage exceeded $30 million. Yet miraculously, there were no immediate deaths...
...against Iraq has clearly helped the regime to deflect attention from much of its internal strife. The offensive occupies an army that could otherwise become dangerously restless, while allowing Khomeini through assassinations and contrived battlefield accidents to get rid of certain "undesirables." Says Mansouri: "Khomeini is the time bomb the Shah bequeathed to Iran when he fled." It is a lesson even the Soviets have had to learn the hard way. -By Pico Iyer. Reported by Raji Samghabadi/New York
...testimony of aides and servants revealed no knowledge that he kept a diary and indicated that his daily schedule left precious little time for private jottings. His right hand trembled from progressively acute palsy and, after a 1944 assassination attempt, his arm was at least temporarily incapacitated by bomb wounds...
McCloy played a key role in the decision not to bomb Auschwitz or the railroad tracks leading to the camp where millions of Jews were murdered. Despite McCloy's assertion that President Roosevelt made the decision not to bomb, David Wyman, a leading expert on the Holocaust, has found "do documentary evidence that the bombing decision ever came to Roosevelt...
...Kennedy School's Institute of Politics voted 22 to 7 in future of supporting the other groups' charges that McCley as High Commissioner commuted the sentences of convicted Nazi War criminals, and that as Assistant Secretary of War, he influenced the U.S. government's decision not to bomb Auschwitz concentration camp and to intern Japanese-Americans...