Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...involved in a war, there were several major international events during the time the Class of 1960 was at Harvard: the Soviet Union invaded Hungary, shot down Gary Powers and the U-2 plane he piloted on a spy mission over Russian soil: China developed its own atomic bomb; the Suez Canal crisis brewed; Castro rose to power; and racial conflict in South Africa came to a head in the bloody Sharpeville riots...
Goode also released a letter written before the siege by Move Member Ramona Africa, the sole known adult survivor of the bombing and fire that later engulfed the Move building, killing seven adults and four children and destroying or seriously damaging 60 surrounding houses. The letter warned that Move would "burn this . . . house down and burn you up with us" if the police attacked. Critics armed with hindsight said the note should have tipped city officials that a bomb could spark an inferno...
When a car bomb exploded on March 8 in a Beirut suburb, killing more than 80 people and injuring 200, there was little doubt as to the attack's target. The detonation took place just 50 yds. from the home of Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, spiritual leader of the Hizballah (Party of God), a militant pro-Iranian Shi'ite group. Several of Fadlallah's bodyguards were among the victims, but the sheik, who was in a nearby mosque, was uninjured. No one ever claimed responsibility for the incident...
Last week the Washington Post reported that the bomb attack was the work of mercenaries hired by members of a Lebanese intelligence unit that had secretly received counterterrorist training and assistance from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA did not know about the attack beforehand and had no control over it, the Post said. Alarmed that even this indirect association with such an incident could damage U.S. interests in the Middle East, the Reagan Administration canceled its connection with the Lebanese intelligence agency...
...sense." He cautions, however, that the obstacles to developing an actual weapon are "fantastic," and repeated last week his view that SDI threatens "a big new escalation" in the arms race. For good measure, he took a swipe at Edward Teller, his colleague from the World War II atom-bomb project who is now a promoter of Star Wars in general and X-ray lasers in particular. Teller, said Bethe, was the scientist "who brought us the H-bomb with the statement that it will...