Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shrewd editorial stroke, McClatchy brought back Howard Weaver, now 35, a defector from the News's bad old days. Weaver, who had left to launch a "semiunderground" weekly, says McClatchy interviewed him "to find out what kind of bomb thrower I was." A mighty good one, as events proved...
...swimmers Gaines and Steve Lundquist, the basketball player Ann Meyers, the triple jumper Willie Banks, among others, spoke in favor of peace at an extraordinary press conference whose subjects ranged from a reunion of the Apollo-Soyuz spacemen to a statement delivered on behalf of the Athletes-Against-the-Bomb Rugby Tour. Sighed Banks: "All my life I've wanted to do something important...
...guards, barred windows and installed alarms at his villa in Strasslach, south of Munich. Last week Beckurts, 56, lost his battle against ter rorism. On his way to work, Beckurts and the driver of his gray BMW limousine were killed 875 yards from his home when a hidden roadside bomb blew the vehicle across the road and into a fence. A letter filled with Marxist jargon was found near the blast, and identified those responsible for the attack as West Germany's Red Army Faction. The letter claimed that Beckurts, a participant in technical meetings on the U.S. Strategic Defense...
Only hours later in Paris, a bomb exploded in a police annex on the Quai de Gesvres, instantly killing Chief Inspector Marcel Basdevant, 54, and wounding 22 police employees. The bombing was the work of Action Directe, a French terrorist band that trumpeted an alliance with West Germany's RAF last year...
...behind the surface, there is evidence of mounting white anxiety, much of it related to the current violence. More bombs exploded in South Africa last week. In a dozen such explosions since June 12, three people have been killed and more than 120 injured. At Magoo's Bar in Durban's Parade Hotel, where a bomb went off last month, special window glass has since been installed. Lance Davidson, a university student who was slightly injured in the blast, assured patrons last week, "Don't worry, you're safe in here...