Word: bomb
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...cannot escape each other, the U.S. and Mexico know they must get along -- however much one or the other may have to grit its teeth. Rarely, though, have American teeth ground louder than in the case of William Morales, the no-hands terrorist (he blew them off making a bomb). Sentenced to as many as 99 years for a string of bombings, he escaped from the U.S. to Mexico in 1983, was captured in a gun battle and drew an eight-year jail term for killing a Mexican policeman. The U.S. had been dickering to get him back. But Foreign...
Hence, "thank God for the atom bomb," a phrase originally used by another appreciative combat veteran and writer, William Manchester, in his memoir of the Pacific war, Goodbye Darkness. As Fussell's title, T.G.A.B. is aimed at offending those who feel guilty about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He does not. The dramatic end of the war was both "horrible and welcome." Tens of thousands died, but more than a million Allies and Japanese could have been casualties of an invasion campaign. Because he knows the terror and brutality of combat, Fussell draws a sacred line between the men who were...
Responsibility was quickly claimed by the outlawed Irish Republican Army. It was the British army's worst loss of life in Northern Ireland in nearly six years, and the I.R.A.'s bloodiest attack since last November, when a bombing at a war memorial ceremony in Enniskillen claimed the lives of eleven civilians. In Lisburn, I.R.A. operatives evidently managed to attach a bomb to the van's chassis while it was parked, unattended, during the races. In London, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called the attack a "terrible atrocity" but rejected calls in Parliament for the internment without trial of suspected terrorists...
...special party conference, complete with delegate fights and live media coverage, stirs genuine political passions and could advance Gorbachev' s reforms. -- Writer Yevgeny Yevtushenko denounces the Russian tradition of servile patience. -- An I. R. A. bomb kills six British soldiers in Northern Ireland. -- Israel orders deportation of a Palestinian- American gadfly...
Elsewhere, sporadic violence punctuated the event. Mobs attacked bus drivers and taxi owners who refused to stay off the road: dozens of buses were stoned and fire bombed. One fire-bomb victim died in Natal province, where police reported eleven deaths during the three days...