Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long mock-up of a bomb propped up in Tucson's El Presidio Park? Why was there a standing-room-only crowd at a Palm Beach, Fla., high school auditorium for a movie about nuclear-blast casualties? And why, in the middle of Iowa, did 200 residents of Pella (pop. 6,700) gather in the town square to listen to a talk about World...
...obviously disappointed the nuclear consciousness raisers. Complained Ground Zero Volunteer Kathleen Conkling of her Tulane University classmates in New Orleans: "This campus is apathetic." Less blase were 250 students at Atlanta's Emory University, who rallied on a chilly night to hear an eyewitness account of the Hiroshima bomb's aftermath. In a campus referendum at Brown University in Providence, 96% of the faculty, staff and student body approved a mutual U.S.-Soviet weapons freeze...
...even as Israeli soldiers were bulldozing the remains of Jewish settlements in the Sinai and removing the last defiant occupants, Israel sent its warplanes northward to bomb and strafe some strongholds of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon. That air assault breached a cease-fire along the Israeli-Lebanese border that had been in effect since last July. The Israelis' immediate explanation for the bombings: retaliation for a series of Palestinian truce violations, including the death last week, in a landmine explosion, of an Israeli soldier who had himself been on patrol in Lebanese territory...
Kistiskowsky, one of the scientists in charge of the Manhatten project that built the first nuclear bomb during the 1940's, said Regan's plan to build 17,000 more warheads in the next four years is "ludicrous and crazy...
...unforgivable sin in any Lind world is logic. Are the Enu a race of mutants-survivors of a nuclear bomb experiment? Or are they the missing link-a throwback to the age of reptiles? Is the island paradise or purgatory? At different times, Lind has it both ways. Consistency, as he sees it, is the hobgoblin of those without other hobgoblins...