Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...power in international affairs. But formal recognition of the P.L.O. has never prevented the Arab nations from furthering their own feuds by backing one P.L.O. faction against another. P.L.O. fighters have been shot at not only by ) Israelis but by Jordanians, Lebanese, Syrians and each other. In 1978 a bomb demolished the eight-story Beirut headquarters of Abbas' Palestine Liberation Front, killing more than 180 people. Presumed bombers: a rival faction. Presumed target: Abbas, who had left the building before the blast...
...days of testimony, Goode described to the panel how he had monitored the police action from his home and his office, using radio and telephone links with Brooks, who was on the scene. The mayor testified that he had never been told that a helicopter would drop a bomb, and was informed only 17 minutes beforehand that explosives might have to be employed. Not so, said Brooks, who resigned as managing director soon after the disaster. He insisted that the mayor had approved key elements of police contingency plans, including the use of explosives, well in advance. That claim...
...picture was quite different last week, as Goode testified before an eleven-member commission he had appointed to investigate city officials' handling of the episode, particularly the decision to drop a bomb from a helicopter onto the roof of the heavily fortified Move row house. The police hoped the explosion would blow an opening for their tear-gas charges; instead it ignited the fire. Claiming that he had been misinformed and disobeyed by then Managing Director Leo Brooks and Police Commissioner Gregore Sambor, Goode said, "They did not follow my directives...
...they came to see, presiding over the nuclear button, the fate of the world, this cowboy, this actor of cowboys. The half-awakened image that they had in mind came from the last 30 seconds of Dr. Strangelove: Slim Pickens clutching his cowboy hat, astride the falling H-bomb, whooping it up, riding "cowboy logic" down the air to global cinders...
...even prompt new outrages. Said a senior intelligence official: "I expect terrorists to change tactics and attack U.S. officials and facilities again, maybe even in the U.S." The nature of terrorism is such that no one can tell where the next attack may come from. Late last week, a bomb in Santa Ana, Calif., killed Alex Odeh, 41, a leader of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, after he called Arafat a "man of peace" on television...