Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John Lehman's visit to Peking last August was an agreement for three U.S. destroyers to call at Shanghai this year, the first such visit since the Communists took power in 1949. Talking to reporters last week, however, Chinese Communist Party Chief Hu Yaobang dropped a bit of a bomb. Asked by an Australian reporter whether the warships would be nuclear armed, Hu replied that the U.S. had pledged they would...
...Lankan army. Last week the war all but broke out. First the rebels, who represent the island's 2.6 million mostly Hindu Tamils in a separatist struggle against 11 million mainly Buddhist Sinhalese, killed three civilians whom they suspected of being government informers. Then they planted a bomb that ripped apart sections of a train in the capital, Colombo. Finally, hundreds of the so- called Tamil Tigers cut off electricity in the northern city of Jaffna, blasted the town hall and municipal offices with explosives and attacked the heavily fortified police station. After the biggest battle of the year, said...
...beigns The Defense Diaries of W. Morgan Petty, which chronicles Petty's efforts to ensure the safety of 3 Cherry Drive. After all, it's one thing to say your house is bomb free and quite another to get the Super Powers to cooperate. Petty's diaries include the replies of officials to his queries about joining NATO, formalizing a state of non-aggression with the Soviet Union, and protecting his garden vegetables against nuclear fallout...
...marching in the streets. Vigilance, of course, can be tedious, and it has not yet brought the knid of reassurance that people like W. Morgan Petty are looking for. When we find that no one will take him seriously, and that no one will promise not to drop the bomb, it's hard to be cheerful at all. This crisis of cynicism may get a chance to be more important than the immediate threats to our safety. Hope is what you have when you don't have much else...
...were the work of the Communists themselves; opponents of the regime of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte contended that government-backed death squads were responsible. A possible government aim: to force the Communists to end their backing of an urban guerrilla organization that in the past two weeks has staged bomb attacks against four banks and a newspaper in Santiago. The government quickly moved to end speculation about its involvement in the murders by promising a far-reaching inquiry...