Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are signs, however, that Iraq is suffering from internal divisions. According to rumors in Baghdad, last August the government uncovered a military plot to end the war by killing Saddam Hussein in a bomb attack. There are indications that mass executions followed...
...picket line. "I am not prepared to condemn the actions of my members whose only crime is fighting for the right to work," said Scargill. At the same meeting, the Trades Union Congress's new general secretary, Norman Willis, bravely decried "the brick, the bolt or the petrol bomb" as weapons detrimental to the miners' cause. He was jeered with savage shouts...
...delegates who gathered in Dublin's 18th century Mansion House for the annual conference of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, were exuberant. Reason: the I.R.A.'s success in planting the Brighton hotel bomb that last month almost killed British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and left four people dead and 34 injured. "Far from being a blow against democracy," thundered Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams from a platform flanked by huge posters of the devastated hotel, "it was a blow for democracy." Adams termed the bombing "an inevitable result of the British presence...
...similar case land in Peru cleared for tea crops immediately fell victim to the green menace, Rolla Tryon says. During World War 11, he adds, the ubiquitous bracken quickly sprang up in bomb craters throughout England...
...action, which was not endorsed by Chile's democratic opposition parties. In dozens of Santiago neighborhoods, riot police attacked demonstrators who had erected barricades of burning automobile tires. At least eight people died, and some 400 were arrested. Later, four riot police were killed when a bomb blew up a bus on which they were traveling. The regime remained unbending. Before the protest began, a government spokesman announced that 140 "delinquents and petty criminals," whom the opposition described as grass-roots activists, had been sent into domestic exile. Pinochet reiterated his intention to remain in power until...