Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mangled metal, crushed bodies, bloody survivors screaming for help amid piles of rubble. Last week terrorism showed up again in its favorite city, Beirut. Rene Moawad, President of Lebanon for only 17 days and the embodiment of a fragile new attempt at peace, was decapitated when a remote-controlled bomb, hidden in a shuttered shop, exploded as his motorcade passed by after ceremonies marking the 46th anniversary of Lebanon's independence. The estimated 550 lbs. of explosives tore trees out by their roots, hurled the engine block of Moawad's armored Mercedes 50 yards, shattered windows a mile away...
...have become the American paradise. Even the license plates say so. Two months ago, when Hurricane Hugo mowed across the islands from Guadeloupe to Puerto Rico, it turned a landscape that was achingly lovely into one that was painfully bleak. In the case of St. Croix, where a large bomb could scarcely have done more damage, the looting and disorder that followed were as terrifying as the wicked winds. And now, as the high season approaches, those who love the islands and hope to return are left wondering: How much paradise was lost...
After the guerrillas vanished once again, an exhausted President Cristiani rejected a rebel request for a United Nations-supervised cease-fire and declared that "the offensive is totally defeated." But as he was making that announcement at an army officers' country club, his words were drowned out by a bomb explosion. Although the President was not in any danger, the blast demonstrated that even he could not take his personal safety for granted...
Despite its decimation from graduation, the Crimson offense is still strong. Junior guard Beth Wambach has stepped up as the team's scoring leader, and freshmen guards Erin Maher and Cara Frey and sophomore guard Maura Healy could develop into a deadly bomb squad. And 6-ft., 3-in. freshman center Debbie Flandermeyer will certainly bolster play in the paint...
Investigators had found no evidence of a bomb, said Col. Edgar Leal, chief of national police for the state...