Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Toys R Us employee reports a call at 12:58 p.m. at the customer service desk from an unknown male who asked, "What store is this?" The employee responded that it was the Cambridge location of Toys R Us. The caller then said, "Okay, well, then there is a bomb in the store." The Cambridge Fire Department responded to the call...
Later that week, a member of Hamas, the largest Palestinian Islamic group, nearly blew up a bus filled with the school-bound children of Israeli settlers in the Gaza Strip. (An Israeli army jeep escorting the children cut him off, absorbing the blow of his 170-lb. car bomb. The bomber and one soldier died.) "[Arafat] was really panicking about it," said an official who saw him afterward. "Had it been the 40 schoolchildren, it would have been the end of the peace process as we know it." A Hamas splinter group, Islamic Jihad, made another go at that goal...
...Albright failed -- in getting Israel's cabinet to endorse the Wye peace accord. After days of stonewalling, Benjamin Netanyahu suddenly pushed approval of the Wye agreement through his cabinet late Wednesday, following a Tuesday night phone call from President Clinton. "It certainly helped that the Americans are poised to bomb Iraq," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "The Israelis couldn't afford to be the reason that Washington was being given a hard time from Arab countries over action against Saddam...
Kamal said U.S. failure to properly monitor India's preparations was "an act of acquiescence bordering on collusion. The U.S. supplied India with material necessary to create the bomb, from computers to heavy water to initial fuel...
...abortion legal is steadfast, it is also passive and quiet. Before too long, Slepian will join the list of doctors and their assistants killed and then buried in an unmarked media grave. Until an ad began running this week, I had forgotten about nurse Emily Lyons, maimed in the bombing of a Birmingham, Ala., clinic 10 months ago. The bomb that killed an off-duty police officer tore through the nurse's intestines, shattered her bones and ripped her left eye out of her head. She is just now able to read again...