Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Internal terrorism also made headlines around the world last week. In the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, a car bomb exploded, killing 75 people and injuring 100. In Katmandu, capital of the remote Himalayan nation of Nepal, five bombs exploded at the royal palace and government buildings, killing seven people and wounding 240. The explosions came a day after King Birendra declared that he would thwart any "attempt to undermine peace and order." In London on Sunday, police set up cordons after a bomb was discovered in a hotel across the street from Buckingham Palace...
...some people, well, then you're a terrorist too." It was a candid statement of a fearful dilemma: placing an overriding value on human life is the hallmark of a moral nation, yet it puts that nation at a disadvantage in confronting zealots who live by the gun and bomb and are perfectly willing to spill innocent blood, and indeed their own, in a fanatic cause...
...rayed. When there is cause for suspicion, such as a discrepancy between the number of people who check in for a flight and the number who actually board, airlines may empty the plane and ask passengers to identify their bags. The object is to prevent terrorists from putting a bomb on the craft and then not boarding it, or from shipping arms to fellow terrorists at another airport...
Lashing out at a target, almost any target, would serve at least one purpose. It would be cathartic. For a nation seemingly humiliated, for a people fed up with too much talk and too little action, dropping a bomb on Baalbek or shooting a few Shi'ite fanatics would be grimly satisfying. Yet for policymakers the ultimate goal must be not simply to avenge terrorism but to stop it. Doing nothing, it seems certain, invites more atrocities. Yet force often begets force. For Ronald Reagan, the hard question is whether retaliating against terrorists will deter terrorism -- or only provoke more...
...American 747s in the Spanish Canary Islands that killed 582, and the 1974 crash of a Turkish DC-10 near Paris that left 345 dead. More alarmingly, however, the sudden and inexplicable plunge of the Air India craft had the earmarks of terrorism. "It is most likely a bomb," said Mike Ramsden, editor in chief of the aviation magazine Flight International. "A bomb is the most likely reason for a catastrophe, so sudden and complete, to an aircraft with a very fine safety record." Added a high-ranking U.S. Air Force intelligence officer: "It looks like a terrorist...