Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...currently involved in a case that it hopes will change attitudes. Last week the Greek Supreme Court heard a U.S. application for the extradition of Mohammed Rashid, a suspected Palestinian guerrilla. Rashid has been charged with planting a bomb on a Pan Am flight from Tokyo to Honolulu in 1982 that killed one passenger and wounded 15. American officials are hoping that the Rashid case can be a first. Says one: "We hope that terrorists will start running out of places...
...Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. But the warhead might also simply break the rock into pieces that would hit the earth anyway. A better plan, proposed by concerned scientists in the early 1980s, would be to use explosives to deflect an asteroid rather than destroy it. Properly positioned, a bomb could nudge a threatening object enough to make it miss the planet. The catch, says Harris, is that there would not be much time to react to an approaching celestial body. "With an asteroid like this one," he says, "you'd probably get a day's warning at best...
Early-morning commuter traffic clogged the intersection when the armored Cherokee station wagon eased to a halt at a red light in downtown San Salvador. A moment later a man darted forward, placed a bomb on the car roof, then fled just before the explosion. The driver and a bodyguard escaped with minor injuries. But the man in the back seat was killed. He was Attorney General Roberto Garcia Alvarado, the highest-ranking government official to be slain in a war that has claimed some 70,000 lives over the past nine years...
Salvadorans fear the violence will escalate. Five days before the attack on Garcia, a bomb blast ripped through the home of another official of Cristiani's Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), Vice President-elect Francisco Merino, injuring one of Merino's seven children...
...Lebanese-American student en route from Frankfurt to Detroit to visit his parents. They say he could not be the unwitting bomber, as a photograph taken before his departure shows him carrying only a soft-sided bag. Still, Jaafar could have been given another suitcase, one containing the bomb, before boarding the doomed flight at Frankfurt...