Word: bomb
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Police are hunting for an Arab woman suspected of planting the bomb that exploded on a TWA jetliner over southern Greece, killing four Americans, police sources said yesterday...
ATHENS, Greece--A luggage bomb exploded inside a TWA jetliner bound for Athens yesterday, hurtling an American man, two women and a baby three miles through the Greek skies to their deaths, officials reported...
...caller, speaking in Palestinian accented Arabic, said the Ezzedine Kassam Unit of the Arab Revolutionary Cells planted the bomb aboard the plane and would stage further attacks against U.S. targets "across the world...
...intriguing as the preparations that lead up to it. For Mortimer has attempted nothing less than a long case history of his native land, post-1945. Behind the narrow focus on the imaginary Rapstone and its inhabitants, larger events are disclosed: sugar rationing after the war, ban- the-bomb marches during the edgy '50s, the rise of swinging London, the Profumo scandal, strikes, strife and the sinking of traditions in a new tide of commercialism. The fate of the Swan's Nest, an old inn in the vicinity of Rapstone, is symptomatic: "In the course of time it would...
Moments after he spoke, a bomb exploded in a crowded shopping arcade on the Champs Elysees in the center of Paris, apparently the work of Arab terrorists. Two people were killed and 28 others were wounded in the blast, which virtually guaranteed that the first task facing Chirac will be the fight against terrorism. At week's end a rash of bomb hoaxes swept Paris, causing thousands of people to be evacuated from buildings and a train while police searched for explosives...