Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MOSCOW--A family of musicians from Siberia who hijacked an Aeroflot jet hid their weapons inside their instruments, then opened fire and set off a bomb when an army assault team stormed the grounded plane, Soviet media said yesterday...
Izvestia, in its report on the hijack, quoted the note as saying: "Fly to a capitalist country [London]. Don't fly any lower. Otherwise we'll explode a bomb...
They set off a bomb in the airliner's tail section, setting the plane on fire, Tass said, "An air hostess and three passengers were killed as a result of this terrorism," it said...
Izvestia quoted witnesses as saying one hijacker died in the bomb blast, two others committed suicide, and Mrs. Ovechkin had been shot dead by some of her fellow hijackers...
...coca leaves out of circulation. But while it makes sense to tackle the drug problem at its source, the narcotics trade is proving to be hydra-headed: as soon as one area is cleared, another opens up. "Eradicating crops has the same effect as an atomic bomb," says a Mexican official. "It destroys what it hits, but the contamination spreads all around...