Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lines Flight 858, en route from Baghdad to Seoul. Hours later the plane disappeared over the Andaman Sea, shortly before a scheduled stopover in Thailand. Officials in Seoul openly speculated that the Boeing 707, carrying 95 passengers and a crew of 20, might have been destroyed by a bomb planted by North Korean agents. South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan said the North was intensifying "provocative moves to obstruct the upcoming < presidential election and the Olympics...
Unless the PLO agrees to two "eminently reasonable" conditions, to recognize the state of Israel and to "say to their people no longer to bomb food markets, schoolbuses, and and airports, they should not be included in a peace conference," argued Hyman Bookbinder, the chief Washington lobbyist of the American Jewish Congress...
...Atlantic City a hundred times, Vegas 200 times, Miami Beach a million times." Then came ventures in theater and film. A comedy, A Teaspoon Every Four Hours, featuring Jackie Mason and $100,000 of his money, lasted one night on Broadway. He produced and acted in the celluloid bomb The Stoolie, "another effort in my series of efforts to get somewhere." Through all those trials and travels on the road, Mason, 56, never married "because I didn't want to be intensely involved with someone I knew I wouldn't see a week later...
Headhunters with plenty of bucks and boons are raiding the groves of academe. -- Secretary Bennett drops another bomb...
William Bennett, the declamatory Secretary of Education, has opened his bomb bay over Chicago. During a visit he branded the school system America's worst, with a dropout rate of 45% and achievement scores for many schools in the bottom 1% nationwide. Chicago officials were not pleased. After all, surveys have put New York City's and Detroit's dropout rates higher. Chicago Mayor Harold Washington angrily countercharged that Ronald Reagan "has literally dismantled public education in this country." Last week, after saying "the mayor doesn't know what the hell he is talking about," Bennett went to tiny...