Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...isolated, politically motivated bombing, of course, is hardly unknown in the U.S. A bomb left in a corridor outside the Senate chamber caused some $250,000 damage to the Capitol last month, and a group calling itself the Armed Resistance Unit claimed it had done the deed to protest U.S. "imperialism" abroad. Various Puerto Rican independence groups have touched off explosions in New York City, including four against federal and local government buildings last New Year's Eve and four others on Wall Street in March...
...Southern Center for International Studies in Atlanta: "A lot of talk about terrorism can make a lot of people see terrorists everywhere." Such na tional fear is exactly what the terrorist seeks. Advises a top State Department official: "I guess it's like living with the Bomb. You know it's out there, but you can't worry about it every...
...buildings in a towering explosion. Five people, none of them Americans, were killed in the blast; the toll could have been much higher, but the driver aimed his truck at a three-story administrative annex rather than the crowded chancellery building. About an hour later, a similar car bomb exploded just outside the French embassy, blowing a 30-ft. hole in the wall surrounding the compound. A crystal chandelier crashed onto Ambassador Jean Bressot's desk, missing him by inches. Other car bombs went off at a residential complex where many foreigners live, and at three Kuwaiti installations. There...
...first assault was similar to the truck-bomb attacks that have occurred in Lebanon this year, including the ones in October that took the lives of 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 French paratroopers. It was an ominous warning that the oil-producing gulf, a region of vital interest to the U.S., is not exempt from the kind of violence that has plagued Lebanon...
...terrorist bomb devastates Harrods