Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bomb that ripped into a corridor outside the Senate chamber last week was eerily predictable. "I was sort of anticipating something," said a shaken Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd, who lost his office doors to the blast, "especially in light of other occurrences that have taken place around the world recently...
...bomb, with the force of about two to three sticks of dynamite, exploded around 11 p.m.-in time to interrupt a previously announced night session on defense appropriations. Merely by chance, the Senate had adjourned early. Had the lawmakers lingered as late as expected, said Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, "undoubtedly there would have been grave injury and perhaps loss of life." Instead, the explosion tore Byrd's doors off their hinges, wrecked a portion of the Republican cloakroom near by and damaged valuable artwork, including oil portraits of the legendary Senators Webster, Clay and Calhoun. The cost...
Neither, in the long run, is the presence of U.S. Marines in Lebanon. Although the international forces stationed in Beirut can serve as a valuable stabilizing force while the Lebanese hammer out a settlement, their stay should not be open-ended. As the recent car bomb attack at the Marine compound illustrates, the Marines may only serve as a catalyst for still more violence. The United States should withdraw the Marines as soon as they are confident such a withdrawal would not prompt fresh violence...
...wires led to fire extinguishers--stolen from MIT, incidentally--filled with yellow paint. They were triggered by mousetraps that the wires connected to some benches and an endzone. Had it not been for some alert groundskeepers and the Cambridge bomb squad, the paint, when released, would have resulted in a huge, jaundiced "Y" appearing on the turf...
...This Navy jet came over and made a couple of runs at us," said Ross. "First it just waggled its wings. Then it made a lateral pass. Finally it opened the bomb doors, and the pilot dropped a buoy about 30 ft. ahead of us just to show what else he could drop and how close he could drop...