Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington was heightened last week by six explosions in Kuwait, including that of an explosives-laden truck that crashed through fragile barriers at the U.S. embassy. At least six people were killed and 60 wounded (see WORLD). Believed to be the work of Iran-backed Islamic revolutionaries, the bombings represented an ominous spread of the tactic from Lebanon, where similar attacks in recent months against the U.S. embassy, American and French military barracks near the Beirut airport, and an Israeli army headquarters at Tyre killed a total of 423 people. On Saturday, terrorists struck another chilling blow, this...
...week was a nine-ring circus of death and despair. After Sunday's raid came an intensive artillery barrage by Syrian-backed Druze militiamen, resulting in the death of eight U.S. Marines near Beirut International Airport. In Beirut itself, a car bomb exploded in a crowded street, killing 14 people. Nobody was apprehended, and as usual, the list of suspects was endless. Next day a terrorist bomb exploded on a crowded bus in Jerusalem, killing five Israelis and wounding 45 others. For this senseless slaughter, two warring branches of the Palestine Liberation Organization, including the mainstream group led by Chairman...
Strangelove treated the atomic bomb," he says. "It's funny, but it was an area that we felt deserved a sardonic look...
DIED. Slim Pickens, 64, grizzled actor with a gulch-wide twang who played second-banana Hollywood cowpokes in westerns including One-Eyed Jacks (1961) and Blazing Saddles (1974), but whose indelible screen moment was his cowboy-hat-waving, yeehah-ing ride on a nuclear bomb dropped on the Russkies in Dr. Strangelove (1964); of lingering complications after the 1982 removal of a brain tumor; in Modesto, Calif. Born Louis Bert Lindley Jr., he changed his name in the 1930s when he became a rodeo clown and bronco buster, explaining his new moniker "was a natural, considerin' that in those...
Says M.I.T. Engineering and Computer Professor Jack Ruina: "I would compare it to going right from the kite stage to the 747." Years further off is the X-ray laser, which would be "bomb pumped," or powered by an internal nuclear explosion. Still more problematic are particle-beam weapons, which would fire streams of atomic particles...