Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West Berlin's Tempelhof Airport every three minutes, ferrying as much as 12,940 tons a day of food and fuel into the besieged city. The Soviets finally capitulated, but by the end of 1949 the West had new cause for worry: the Soviets had exploded an atomic bomb, ending the U.S. nuclear monopoly...
...training and tradition, the U.S. Marines prefer going over the top to hunkering down in the trenches. Their indifference to digging in may have proved fatal, however, when a terrorist truck bomb blew apart Marine headquarters in Beirut on Oct. 23, killing 241 men. So concluded a highly critical report last week by the Investigations Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee. The hawkish subcommittee, in a document approved by a vote of 9 to 3, charged the Marines with slack security and inadequate intelligence gathering, and accused the entire military chain of command of "very serious errors in judgment...
...facts laid out last week in the congressional subcommittee's 78-page report were much different-and much less excusable. At 5 a.m., an hour and 20 minutes before the attack, a truck-possibly the one used in the bombing-circled with its lights off in the parking lot outside Marine headquarters. Only five minutes before the attack, a car pulled up and its driver began taking pictures of the building; one guard later pronounced this "kind of strange." Finally, the red Mercedes truck with the fatal bomb rumbled through an iron gate left "invitingly" open, cruised at about...
...Bulletin's doomsday clock was first set at seven minutes before midnight in 1947. The clock has moved as close as two minutes before midnight (in 1953, when the Soviets detonated their first hydrogen bomb) and as far away as twelve minutes (most recently in 1972, when the U.S. and U.S.S.R. signed SALT I, the arms-limitation agreement...
...police, tragically, had been searching for the bomb when it went off, apparently detonated by remote control. Forty minutes earlier, a caller with an Irish accent had phoned the Samaritans, a voluntary organization, to announce: "Car bomb outside Harrods. Two bombs in Harrods." Scotland Yard was notified, and a team of police, including animal handlers and trained "sniffer" dogs, was dispatched to the store. At least five people died, and 91 were injured...