Word: bombed
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...m.p.h., compresses the air in its path so much that in effect the asteroid is stopped dead in its tracks, converting kinetic energy almost instantaneously into heat, light and a powerful shock wave. That causes a tremendous explosion, in this case equivalent to the blast of a one-megaton bomb...
Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev tried to make a similar link May 14 in a speech on Chernobyl. He called the destructive power of nuclear weapons far greater than the impact of the atomic plant accident and urged the U.S. to agree to a ban on nuclear-bomb testing. Gorbachev's message seems to be influencing European public opinion. Said one NATO official: "Gorbachev has scored another public relations coup...
...agitation for a multiracial democracy in South Africa. During the past 18 months of turbulence, however, the outlawed movement has stepped up its activities, both subversive and diplomatic. Last year it decided to extend guerrilla operations to South African civilian areas, including white suburbs. Its first such strike, a bomb set off in a shopping center near Durban last December, left five people dead. The new strategy coincided with the creation of a broader- based leadership, as the previously all-black national executive committee expanded its membership to 30 when, for the first time ever, it elected a white...
...Europe and the Mediterranean, even though in the past the Assad government has consistently deplored such assaults against civilians. The charges, pressed by the Israelis but confirmed in some particulars by some Western intelligence agencies, link Syria with the recent attempt by a Jordanian-born Palestinian to plant a bomb aboard a London-Tel Aviv El Al flight with 360 passengers aboard. Evidence also surfaced that could tie the Syrians to a West Berlin explosion that destroyed the German-Arab Friendship Society, and possibly to a subsequent blast at La Belle discotheque in the same city. The nightclub bombing, which...
...sink. After a 2 1/2-hour standoff, White left to go to the bathroom, handing his wife, who was standing in the center of the room, two bottles of gasoline wired to a battery and manual trigger. When her hand apparently slipped on the trigger, she set off the crude bomb. The blast killed her instantly. It seared young faces with flash burns and ignited clothes. Reeling teachers shoved children through the blown-out windows onto the grass outside, where they lay screaming and shivering with shock as their parents fought through police lines to reach them. Some 70 people were...