Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jordanian artillery opened up on two successive days. For the first time, Israelis also hit at the 15,000 Iraqi troops stationed in Jordan, who recently started firing their long-range, 122-mm. Russian heavy guns into Israel. Israeli jets flashed across the cease-fire lines three times to bomb the area around the Jordanian town of Irbid and hammer at the artillery positions of the 421st Iraqi battalion. Deep inside Jordan, Israeli commandos blew up two vital bridges connecting Amman and the port of Aqaba...
...attempts, the Israelis blew up the homes of any Palestinians who cooperated with Arafat's men. El Fatah's next phase was a campaign that sent smaller groups to hide in caves or live with sympathetic Arabs, and venture out at night to set mines or time bombs. Israel hit back at their riverside guerrilla camps, forcing El Fatah to move its bases farther in land. Despite these setbacks, the fedayeen have been able to step up their operations to as many as two dozen a day. Though El Fatah hotly rejects being called terroristic, it has also...
...children were wounded and two adults killed. In August, the guerrillas managed to terrorize the population of Jerusalem and in the bargain set off an anti-Arab riot by a series of grenade attacks. In September, they struck for the first time at Tel Aviv, where a commando bomb in a wastebasket outside the bus station killed one Israeli and wounded another...
...which Peck plays a U.S. scientist who enters Red China to help a Chinese colleague escape from Mao's clutches. The Chinese press railed at the moviemakers for "insulting the cultural revolution and provoking 700 million Chinese people." In Hong Kong, the anti-Peck campaign, complete with bomb threats and promises of demonstrations, finally reached a point where the government canceled the filming, which sent everyone off to Taiwan to shoot remaining scenes...
...machines of the 1940s, and particularly the atom bomb, in Hulten's opinion, helped to turn artists away in disgust from technological subject matter. But by the late 1950s, the machine was beginning to attract a new following. This postwar generation could treat a machine with easy familiarity. Claes Oldenburg's liquidly drooping Giant Soft Fan is, among other things, a gently nostalgic evocation of times past -since, after all, air conditioning is more common nowadays. Jean Tinguely's joyous black Rotozaza, No. 1 tosses out colored balls and then sucks them back in again, a mystifying...