Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bolivia--A remote-controlled bomb exploded on a road yesterday amid the motorcade of Secretary of State George P. Shultz, shattering the window of his wife's car but causing no injuries...
Police said the bomb, which they believe was several sticks of dynamite, was detonated by someone on a grassy hill overlooking the road seconds after Shultz's car had passed...
...BIGGEST BOMB. Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton will be remembered for The Speech That Would Not End, turning the Omni into the hall of the numb and the restless. Clinton stuck with a 19-page snoozer of a nominating speech through signals from the chairman to stop, through a flashing red light and through index fingers drawn across the throat, the broadcast symbol for "Cut it short." His humor returned the next day: "It wasn't my finest hour. It wasn't even my finest hour and a half...
Stressing the need to reduce the federal budget deficit, which he called a "time bomb," Ford said it should be the next president's first priority. Ford defended the Bush campaign's pledge of not raising taxes as a prudent move while stating that a candidate should instead emphasize cutting waste in the federal bureaucracy...
...elected Hidalgo County judge. When he won his House seat two years later, he was its youngest member. He did not make much of a mark in his three terms, and may be best remembered for a speech in 1950 urging that America drop an atom bomb on North Korea unless its troops retreated north of the 38th parallel. Bentsen became one of the youngest members ever to leave the House voluntarily. At 33, complaining ! that the $12,500-a-year salary was not enough to raise three children on, Bentsen returned to Texas to start a life-insurance company...