Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unmentioned, but ultimately significant respect. He equates the influence of military power in the world of the 1600s with that of the world of the 1980s. But we live in a much different world with different dynamics of military conflict which can be summarized in two words: The Bomb...
...Boston Globe devoted three paragraphs to the game. Press row looked like a stink bomb had fallen...
...scholarly, journalistic and pop culture documentation--everything from Dr. Spock to Elvis Presley to Mad Magazine--the author develops a complex web of historical context to explain the origins and antecedents of a movement that has all too often been simplistically reduced to single determinants (the war, the Bomb, the generation gap, etc.). Both rigorous and readable, his analysis convincingly explains how the student movement and the counterculture came into being without either trivializing them or drowning itself in its own data...
Before a national television audience, Kim Hyon Hui, 26, a North Korean agent, tearfully described how she had placed a bomb disguised as a radio on the Baghdad-Seoul flight. The timer was set to go off several hours after she and her partner, Kim Sung Il, 69, disembarked in Abu Dhabi. The pair swallowed cyanide capsules when they were arrested shortly after the jetliner vanished. Kim Sung Il died, but Kim Hyon Hui recovered and was taken to Seoul, where she will soon stand trial...
...explosion last April that wrecked La Belle, a West Berlin discotheque popular with U.S. servicemen, is still reverberating in Western Europe. The disco bomb killed two Americans and a Turkish woman and wounded 230 others; ten days later, following charges that Libya was responsible, President Reagan ordered bombing raids against targets in Libya. Last week West German police arrested Christine Gabriele Endrigkeit, 27, a native of West Berlin. She is allegedly an associate of jailed Jordanian Terrorist Achmed Nawaf Mansour Hazi, who has been convicted of bombing the German-Arab Friendship Society building in West Berlin a week before...