Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apprehension was well founded. A year ago, as she sat in her station wag- on in the driveway of her home in the wealthy South Florida city of Naples, a powerful pipe bomb exploded between the front seats. Margaret Benson, 63, and her adopted son Scott, 21, were killed immediately. Her daughter Carol Lynn, now 42, was seriously injured but escaped from the car moments before a second bomb blast...
...more space shuttle will not meet the challenge. For the moment, America has lost its nerve and its vision from the top down. What we do in space now is just as important as the Panama Canal, the atom bomb, the cure for polio, the trip to the moon. The most frightening deficit is in boldness...
...business equivalent of throwing the bomb on fourth and long, the U.S.F.L. switched seasons to go head to head this fall with the N.F.L. The networks, however, were not buying. ABC did not renew. NBC and CBS, which, like ABC, have a five-year contract to rotate N.F.L. coverage, also would not touch the struggling league...
...attacks, the worst this year in the crumbling Lebanese capital, accounted for almost half the country's 123 car- bomb-related deaths since January. They underlined yet again the bloody logic of Beirut's seemingly senseless cycle of sectarian vendettas. No groups claimed responsibility for the bombings, but Christian leaders promptly blamed the East Beirut atrocity on Muslims, charging that they were acting for the regime of Syrian President Hafez Assad. Across town in his West Beirut headquarters, Nabih Berri, the chief of the predominantly Shi'ite Amal militia, ascribed the Barbir bombing to Christian militiamen bent on revenge. More...
...later, Berri, who is also Lebanon's Minister of Justice, organized his own show of "justice," though it bore no direct relation to either of last week's explosions. Amal militiamen bound and blindfolded Mohieddin Saleh, 22, a Sunni Muslim they charged with trying to set off a car bomb three months earlier, then took him to a playground near the Rawdat Shahidain Cemetery. As a crowd of 1,000 looked on, Amal executioners stepped up to the prostrate Saleh and pumped seven machine-gun rounds into his face and body. The grisly execution tragically bore out the lament...