Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jungles of Viet Nam, has transformed his war experience -- the bad dream he lived through for 15 months in 1967-68 -- into a film called Platoon. With craft, crackle, a little bombast and plenty of residual rage, he has created a time-capsule movie that explodes like a frag bomb in the consciousness of America, showing how it was back then, over there...
...Chad for a long time, despite the Libyan leader's frequent denials. More important, the prisoners were tangible evidence of the biggest victory of the Chad army since the latest round of fighting began in 1982. Gaddafi responded to the defeat at Fada by dispatching four MiG-23s to bomb the towns of Arada and Oum Chalouba. The raid did little damage, yet it was important because it carried the war south of the 16th parallel. In 1983 France set that line as the point beyond which Libyan military interference would not be tolerated...
This time, a remote-controlled bomb concealed in a blue Peugeot was detonated as Chamoun's motorcade passed through an East Beirut suburb en route to a meeting of Christian power brokers. The explosion sent his bulletproof + car flying more than 50 ft. across the pavement. Miraculously, the car landed on its wheels, and Chamoun escaped with only cuts and scratches. "God is protecting us," he concluded. Others were not so lucky. The explosion took the lives of a pedestrian and three of Chamoun's bodyguards, who were traveling in a separate car, and injured 35 others...
Meanwhile, back in the Kakus' homeland, severalof their relatives died in the Hiroshima blast.The physicist says he "grew up in the shadow ofthe atomic bomb...
...first Hanford reactor was built in 1943, amid the remote sand and sagebrush near the juncture of the Snake and Columbia rivers, to provide plutonium for the bomb destined to destroy Nagasaki. The N reactor (its predecessors have all gone to their last great fission in the sky) dates back 23 years -- and was designed to last only 20. The parts are worn, the pumps and wiring often fail, the whole reactor conks out 20 to 25 times a year. The graphite casing that holds the nuclear rods is swelling by nearly an inch a year, and will collide with...