Word: bombed
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Controversy over the ill-fated flight revived when London's Daily Mail obtained a memo from the British Ministry of Transport dated Dec. 19. The alert warned British airlines and airports and some foreign carriers of a new type of terrorist bomb, packed with the Czechoslovak-made explosive Semtex, that could be hidden in a radio-cassette player. The memo contained an elaborate list of clues for detecting such devices, including the failure of the cassette player to function normally and more wiring than usual for a portable player. "Its sophistication, and the effort taken to conceal it," said...
...bomb that was detonated two days later aboard Flight 103 is thought to be similar to the one detailed in the memo. The British bulletin was also distributed to U.S. airlines, but because the packet of information included a color photograph, it had to be sent by mail. A Pan Am spokeswoman said last week that that warning did not reach the company's London office until...
...admission by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration that almost identical alerts had been circulated to American airlines for more than a month before the December warning. On Nov. 18 an "aviation security bulletin" urged airlines to be on the lookout for explosive-packed cassette recorders, painstakingly describing the "Toshiba bomb." On Nov. 22 the British issued a similar alert, but only to British airlines and airports...
...Palestine-General Command, and discovered a Toshiba Boombeat Model 453 radio- cassette player fitted with explosives and a barometric device designed to explode at high altitudes. In the first week of November, the West Germans held a conference in Wiesbaden to distribute information about the construction of the bomb. Security specialists from Britain and the rest of Europe attended...
...since Stalin slammed down the Iron Curtain has the region experienced so much change. So far, Washington and its allies have been restrained in trying to turn events in Moscow's front yard to their advantage -- and they may keep it that way. -- British and U.S. officials acknowledge bomb alerts prior to Flight 103's ill-fated voyage. -- Peru lurches toward chaos...