Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Italy's neo-Fascists had once again drawn blood-however mistakenly-a month to the day after a terrorist bomb detonated in the Bologna train station and took 84 lives. Indeed, on the morning of Di Leo's death, tens of thousands of demonstrators had gathered outside the gutted station to protest the massacre. Police were holding 21 suspects in connection with the bombing, claiming to have decapitated the country's neo-Fascist movement...
Charlie, who could be of greater strategic value than the neutron bomb. After torturing and killing Vicky, the Shop kidnaps Charlie, who is rescued by her father's "push." Thereafter, and for most of the book, Andy and Charlie flee through the Northeast, pursued by a brutal bunch of Shopworkers who anticipate the fugitives' every move. While Andy's psychic powers fade, Charlie's grow ever more explosive- and repulsive...
Just in case the bomb went off, city authorities evacuated 3,000 people from Harvey's eleven floors and from nearby houses. The windows at Harrah's, across the street from Harvey's, were boarded up. But life went on almost normally in Stateline, a community of seven casinos and 1,500 residents that is just a roll of the dice from the California border. Even at Harrah's, gamblers milled around the roulette wheels and card and dice tables...
Douglas County Sheriff Jerry Maple decided that there was no choice but to try to disarm the bomb. Though the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had offered to lend a robot with mechanical claw and television-camera eye, the authorities relied instead on a local firefighter, who attached a small explosive device to the bomb, which was supposed to either destroy the control box or detonate the crate's contents. At 3:42 p.m., authorities crossed their fingers and set off the small explosive...
...instant later, their fingers were in their ears. The bomb exploded with a tremendous blast, sending thick smoke billowing through the street and shooting glass and concrete as far as four blocks away. When the smoke cleared, no one was injured and Harvey's remained standing, with its first two floors gutted and nearly all of its windows blown out. FBI agents began combing their files for bombmakers in hopes of finding a lead that would take them to the extortionists In demanding $3 million, the gang it turned out, had offered even odds: authorities estimated the blast damage...