Word: bombings
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...into the country and to keep closer tabs on the 6,500 already there. In addition, the government is expected to take a careful look at the 270 Libyans enrolled in a British Airways engineering course at London's Heathrow Airport. Heathrow was the scene of an unexplained bomb blast last month during the height of the siege at St. James's Square...
...charged with literary dictatorship and George Bernard Shaw with "Stalinism." And yet the author's praise is not entirely fulsome. Prophetic fiction owes its very existence to Wells. He was, as Joseph Conrad wrote, a "realist of the fantastic." In The World Set Free, he predicted the atom bomb; in The Island of Dr. Moreau, organ transplants; in The War of the Worlds, laser beams. Wells also produced a vast body of nonfiction, capped by The Outline of History, an almost hysterically optimistic attempt to trace mankind's ascent from darkness to a science-aided summit far from...
...estimated 8,500 Britons in Libya. It also doubted the feasibility of bringing the Libyan gunman to trial, since in the end he could probably claim diplomatic immunity. Finally, there was the fear that the Libyans might attempt a desperate act of terrorism, possibly by planting a time bomb in their vacated London embassy. The feelings of exasperation were summarized by a high-ranking British official: "We want them...
Slightly more than a year ago, President Reagan surprised the nation, and many experts in his own Government as well, by calling for an all-out program, along the lines of the Manhattan Project, which developed the atom bomb, to build a defense system in space. He envisioned a network of orbiting sensors that would detect a Soviet attack as soon as it was launched, then trigger giant remote-control ray guns that would destroy attacking rockets or their warheads before they could do any damage...
...idea had been planted in Reagan's mind by his friend and frequent adviser Edward Teller, the Hungarian-born superhawk, often described as the father of the hydrogen bomb, whose bold and controversial ideas have occasionally led some of his fellow physicists to moan, "E.T., go home." Teller's brainstorm became Reagan's dream, and the dream became national policy. In a speech in March 1983, the President asked, "What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that . . . we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that...