Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past few decades, as U.S.-China relations have thawed, Beijing has had plenty of access to exploit. Chinese scientists visiting U.S. nuclear-weapons labs in the 1980s, for instance, pilfered design information for the neutron bomb and the Trident-II nuclear warhead. Commercial attaches prowling trade shows have been spotted pocketing demonstration videos of weapons systems or dipping their ties into chemical solutions on display so that secret formulas can be analyzed. Chinese agents have even gone to U.S. military-surplus sales to buy scrapped aviation hardware...
Move over, Iraq. Top White House aides have been meeting to prepare for the next international blowup they expect by March: Kosovo. Serbian President SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC halted his bloody crackdown of the rebellious province after NATO threatened to bomb him last October. But negotiations to reach a political settlement between Milosevic and the province's ethnic Albanians have stalled. U.S. diplomats managed to avert a major clash in the northern part of the province last Wednesday, when they persuaded Albanian guerrillas to free eight Serb army soldiers, but by the end of the week 45 ethnic Albanians were killed...
...DELHI: Terrorists, like celebrities, hate being ignored. India's reported foiling of an Osama bin Laden plot to bomb U.S. targets there may be a sign of a new offensive by the Saudi superterrorist. "The biggest threat to Bin Laden is dropping out of the media spotlight," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "With the Ramadan fast over, he may now be feeling the pressure to carry out some actions and show that the clampdown on his organization hasn't stopped...
...Indian police Wednesday announced the arrest of four men -- including a Bangladeshi national who Indian authorities claim was working for Pakistani intelligence -- accusing them of planning to bomb the U.S. embassy on January 26. U.S. investigators have flown to India to interrogate the suspects. "It's too early to confirm that this is Bin Laden," says Dowell. But even if the India plot doesn't pan out, Bin Laden is likely to planning more dramatic attacks. Says Dowell, "He needs the publicity...
...Mount aimed at instigating a war between Arabs and Jews that would culminate in Armaggedon. Deciding not to wait for the end of the world, the Israelis raided two houses where 14 cult members lived, taking in three men for investigation of conspiracy to commit a crime and to bomb holy places. Though they asked to go to Greece to join their fellow believers, all 14 Concerned Christians were deported to Denver on Saturday. Some cult members indicated last week that Miller was in London. Says Colorado-based cult watcher Hal Mansfield: "He can run them by phone from anywhere...