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...group immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing. But it was the culmination of an especially bloody week in the city. On Wednesday, another car bomb had exploded in East Beirut, killing 15 people, many of them children, and shattering a six-story apartment building. Scores of civilians also fell victim to artillery and mortar exchanges between rival Christian and Muslim forces. WEST GERMANY Fatal Identity...
...woman dressed in blue jeans, who appeared to be with a tall mustachioed man she called Jeff. Pimental left with the couple. Next morning he was found dead, shot in the back of the neck with a large-caliber gun. Minutes after his body was found, a terrorist car bomb exploded inside the U.S. Rhein-Main Air Base some 20 miles away, killing two people, both Americans, and injuring...
...theorized that Jeff could have been Pimental's killer. But last week the Frankfurt office of the Reuters news agency received a copy of a letter from the Red Army Faction, a West German terrorist group, and the French extremist organization Direct Action claiming responsibility for the air-base bombing. More startling, the envelope contained Pimental's green military identification card. The West German authorities now think they may have an explanation for how the terrorists managed to drive their bomb-laden car past the guards at the air base: they might simply have flashed Pimental's ID card. FRANCE...
...come to a critical juncture in its rivalry with the Soviet Union. With Reagan's firm advocacy of SDI, the U.S. stands poised to embark on the most extravagant military project ever conceived, perhaps the most far-reaching since the Bomb was born in the desert near Los Alamos 40 years ago. It could change forever the nature of the nuclear threat; it could force the Soviets into serious bargaining. It also has the potential, at least for the foreseeable future, to cripple any efforts at arms control...
...blunt book The Immigration Time Bomb, Colorado Governor Richard Lamm argues that the U.S. must enforce its borders and discourage the "divisiveness of pluralism." Public agitation over immigration also fuels the plot of Lamm's 1988, a political novel that envisions a motley conspiracy to place a third-party candidate, a former Texas Governor, in the White House. Co-Author Arnold Grossman is a campaign media packager, and so is the book's hero. The narrative begins with the claim that "given a large enough budget and enough creative genius, Colonel Qaddafi could get himself elected president." Voters...