Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chief of the rural police, had been arrested in what appeared to be an attempt to purge the armed forces of all non-Islamic elements. One member of the Revolutionary Council said: "The plotters wanted to release the American hostages, then take some high officials as hostages and bomb important places such as the residence of the Ayatullah Khomeini...
...large numbers of Arabs living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip who have hitherto rejected violence as a solution to the Palestinian problem. Part of it is born of the feeling that the Camp David accords are going nowhere. Part is an expression of anger at the bomb attacks last month that maimed the West Bank Arab mayors of Nablus and Ramallah. Argues Hikmat al-Masri, board chairman of Najah University in Nablus: "Under international law we should be protected by the Israelis. But they did not come to [Nablus Mayor] Bassam Shaka...
FICTION: A Gentle Occupation, Dirk Bogarde •Falling in Place, Ann Beanie •Finding a Girl in America, Andre Dubus •Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party, Graham Greene •Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler •Preparations for the Ascent, Gilbert Rogin •Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz
...recall, resigned as Secretary of State--is being held hostage in Iran. In South Korea, they've locked up all the students for being students. At the Pentagon, a broken 46-cent circuit almost started World War III. And in France, they've built their very own neutron bomb...
FICTION: A Gentle Occupation, Dirk Bogarde ∙Falling in Place, Ann Beattie ∙Finding a Girl in America, Andre Dubus ∙Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party, Graham Greene ∙Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙Morgan's Passing, Anne Tyler ∙Preparations for the Ascent, Gilbert Rogin