Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...antiterrorist squads last week, the marble and granite U.S. embassy on Rome's Via Veneto could have shared the fate of the American embassy in Beirut last September. The police teams uncovered a cell of Islamic extremists who seemed to be on the verge of executing yet another bomb attack on a symbol of U.S. authority. The plot may have been the one brazenly promised by the shadowy Islamic Jihad group two days before the U.S. presidential election, when the terrorists promised to mount a violent operation that would "surprise" the Americans...
Although the students have refused to talk, the Italians believe the terrorist cell was organizing a suicide bomb attack, perhaps directed at a garage located below the quarters that house many of the Marine guards. The police assume that since it would take at least 200 Ibs. of plastic explosives to blow up a building the size of the embassy, the gang was still in the process of building up its cache. In fact, according to the police, the gang may have been planning the attack for at least a year...
...first explosion occurred shortly before dawn last week at an abortion clinic in Wheaton, Md. Eleven minutes later, a second bomb blast shook a Planned Parenthood office one mile away, in Rockville. No one was hurt, but the eleven-year-old abortion clinic was destroyed, and the Planned Parenthood office sustained an estimated $50,000 in damages...
...piston mechanism. The new containers generally cost 20% more than tubes. Even so, the companies think they will have far more success than the last time they tried a radical departure from the tube. In the late 1950s an attempt to market toothpaste in aerosol cans was a bomb...
...against total sexual anarchy. If the experience of Frank Raftis (Robert De Niro) and Molly Gilmore (Meryl Streep) is typical, the difficulty of arranging a discreet tryst remains a powerful weapon on the side of the angels. Indeed, Falling in Love shows an extramarital affair to be the neutron bomb of interpersonal relations, capable of wiping out all intelligent life, leaving only the bare generic conventions of romantic fiction standing stark against...