Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mexico City has been described as the anteroom to an ecological Hiroshima. With 20 million residents -- up from 9 million only 20 years ago -- the Mexican capital is considered the most populous urban center on earth. Mexico City has been struck not by military weapons but by a population bomb...
...least the past decade, the nuclear industry, both electric-power and weapons divisions, has faced the prospect of strangling on its radioactive garbage. Now that may actually happen to the Government's nuclear-bomb plant at Rocky Flats, near Boulder. Between next March and May, it will reach a limit set by state law on how much waste it can store on site. At that point, Governor Roy Romer could order it shut, making Rocky Flats the first atomic facility to be closed because it is unable to dispose of its trash...
...dissenters did not say whether they thought the soldiers' own ammunition had exploded -- or some Middle East terrorist group had planted a bomb aboard the DC-8. The official report counters some of these claims with its own scientific analysis but leaves many questions unanswered. The bitter split on the safety board has raised eyebrows in Ottawa, and two opposition Members of Parliament have called for a judicial inquiry into the tragedy...
Dean of the Law School James Vorenberg '49 said a search of the library by Cambridge police bomb experts turned up nothing...
Vorenberg said that although there are no suspects in the bomb scare, he expects police to investigate fully...