Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tokyo, a bomb exploded at Narita Airport Sunday as luggage was being unloaded from a Canadian Pacific Boeing 747, which minutes before had arrived from Vancouver. Two airport workers were killed and four others injured. Less than an hour later, an Air India 747 en route from Toronto plunged into the sea off the Irish coast, and all 329 people aboard were feared dead. Authorities suspected that the otherwise inexplicable crash might have been triggered by a bomb. The international police organization Interpol began an investigation of possible links between the two incidents (see WORLD...
Alternatively, the U.S. could go to the presumed root of the trouble: Iran. Carrier-based U.S. warplanes could, for instance, bomb an Iranian air base, an action that the Carter Administration considered taking if Iran had begun to kill the hostages seized at the American embassy in Tehran in 1979. Or the planes could hit the oil-refining and shipping facilities on Kharg Island; that would damage the Iranian economy but cause minimum loss of life...
...bomb devastates the U.S. embassy in Beirut. Another car bomb obliterates the Marine barracks outside Beirut Airport. Assassins cut down the president of the American University of Beirut. A car bomb wrecks the American embassy annex in East Beirut. After each of these terrorist attacks, and many others, the phone rings in a news agency somewhere in the Middle East and an anonymous caller claims responsibility for the carnage in the name of Islamic Jihad...
...wavering sound," explained Salesman Jerry Koster, "is when there's an actual attack"), but / only Walter Murphey came to Indianapolis eager to talk about war. Murphey, 73, is executive director of the American Civil Defense Association, an 800-member group that agitates, without much success, for federally funded bomb shelters. "That's our hang-up," he said. "Our reason for being is nuclear attack." Despite a voice just like Jimmy Stewart's and an utterly genial manner, Murphey sat alone in his exhibition booth almost the whole time he was there. "People aren't too interested," he admitted...
...signing, terrorists struck first in Madrid, killing an army colonel and his driver. Less than two hours later, an attendant in a garage below a Madrid department store spotted the terrorists' white Renault with a suspicious package inside. Police evacuated 8,000 people, but before the bomb could be defused, it exploded, killing a policeman. Later in the day, an ETA gunman fatally shot a naval petty officer in the Basque city of Bilbao. Declared Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez: "Some people are determined to stain a day of festivities with blood and mourning...