Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...helicopter cabin, Lieut. Frank Powell, chief of Philadelphia's bomb- disposal unit, hefted a canvas satchel holding two 1-lb. tubes filled with a water-based gel explosive. After lighting its 45-sec. fuse, Powell leaned out of the helicopter bay and dropped the device on the roof. His target: a fortified, bunker-like cubicle about 6 ft. square and 8 ft. high...
...disastrous episode provoked widespread criticism and questioning of the Philadelphia police tactics. Should a bomb have been used at all in an urban location? On a house occupied by children as well as wanted adults? Shouldn't the authorities have known fire might result? Hubert Williams, president of the Police Foundation in Washington, said the tactic was, at the very least, "an extreme police response." Mayor Ed Koch of New York said he would fire a police commissioner who even proposed such a "stupid" idea. Even those who held criticism in check could hardly help wondering how in the name...
...device, then obtained his approval some 20 min. before the drop. The mayor waved aside criticism as mere "second- guessing" and declared that, facing the same situation, he would make the same decision "again and again and again." Yet postmortems turned up reasons to wonder whether the drop-a-bomb decision had been thoughtfully made...
...wore red Vuarnets, and a batting helmet, and she was running around like a blonde bombshell," Paul says. "We call Gerri 'Bomb,' and sometimes that turns into 'Cherrybomb...
...Singh Longowal, 49, the Akali Dal's president and leader of the moderate faction within the party, to the committee. Longowal, a forceful advocate of struggle against what he calls an "unjust government" in New Delhi, does not subscribe to the idea of separate nationhood. After last week's bomb attacks, he resigned...