Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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April 18, 1983: The U.S. embassy in West Beirut is devastated by a car bomb; 63 people killed, including 17 Americans...
...Israeli military headquarters in Tyre is destroyed by a car bomb; 29 Israelis and 32 Arab detainees killed...
...French Cultural Center in the Lebanese port city of Tripoli is destroyed by a bomb...
...Muslim population's resentment of both the Israelis and the Christian militia grows by the day. It is an area that has bred small cells of violent fanatics, including, Israeli officials say, adherents of the Islamic Jihad, or Islamic Holy War, who claimed responsibility for the embassy bombing. The mounting tension between the occupying Israelis and the Shi'ite population was emphasized by Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin last week when he said, "Any permanent Israel Defense Forces presence in southern Lebanon constitutes a time bomb...
Bankers see progress on defusing the Third World's debt bomb...