Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Animal rights protests also endanger a field that is more important to human life than coats--animal experimentation. ALF, for example, recently claimed responsibility for sending Stanford University bomb threats because researchers there had successfully infected mice with the AIDS virus, and were testing possible treatments on them...
...months ago in Connecticut, a woman was arrested for attempting to place a bomb under the parking spot of the president of the U.S. Surgical Corporation, which experiments on dogs to create surgical staples. ALF reportedly sent a Cambridge University researcher, who heads the physiology department, a potentially lethal letter bomb...
Harvard police evacuated University Hall yesterday afternoon after a secretary received a phone call warning that a bomb had been planted in the building...
Police declared the threat "negative" after evacuating the building for approximately 30 minutes while three Harvard police officers and two Harvard security guards inspected it. Doherty said that evacuation is "normal procedure" for bomb scares...
...moratorium on the American manufacture of chemical weapons, the Soviet Union acceded to U.S. demands for on-site "challenge inspections" to enforce a treaty. Today the larger obstacle is posed by Third World nations that are reluctant to give up what is known as the "poor man's atom bomb." Poison gases, after all, are cheap and easy to manufacture. "All a terrorist needs is a milk bottle of nerve gas," says a British weapons expert, "and that he can get from a quiet lab in a back street of Tripoli." Thus even if a treaty could be hammered...