Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Busy with the chores of saving the world, he becomes a benign but remote member of his own household: "Not for the first time he felt the simplicity of the great issues, he knew exactly what should be done about South Africa and urban poverty and the bomb. It was the small events, those nearer home, that seemed to him forever shrouded in mystery...
Mayor Wilson Goode's handpicked commission was stunningly impartial. "The plan to bomb the Move house was reckless, ill conceived and hastily approved," the panel concluded last week in its report on the May 1985 siege of a radical group in West Philadelphia. The mayor and his top aides were "grossly negligent" in pursuing the confrontation, the report stated. The bomb, dropped by police helicopter on a fortified row house, led to a fire that destroyed 61 homes and killed six Move members and five of their children. The children's deaths, the panel said, "appear to be unjustified homicides...
...South Africa's southernmost city, far from the northern border area where the A.N.C. has been most active, is evidence that the group's 24-year-old insurgency campaign has become more aggressive. Indeed, sporadic bursts of violence erupted throughout the country last week. Among the most dramatic: a bomb explosion in a toilet at the main police station in Johannesburg where security suspects are interrogated...
...North Atlantic off the coast of Ireland have proceeded with glacial deliberation. India has never officially confirmed what many have suspected all along: that the third-worst aviation accident in history, which took the lives of all 307 passengers and 22 crew members, was the result of a bomb planted in the aircraft's luggage compartment. In spite of their tight- lipped treatment of the case, investigators know much more than they are letting on. Or at least so says Canadian Journalist Salim Jiwa, 34, in a new book, The Death of Air India Flight...
...alleged abuse of animals at Columbia prompted two bomb threats at the school last week, forcing several buildings to be evacuated. Animal rights activists are suspected perpetrators of the bomb scares...