Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka--A car bomb exploded yesterday at the crowded main bus terminal in the heart of the Sri Lankan capital, and officials said as many as 150 people were killed and more than 200 were injured...
...market leader in disposable lighters, claims to have sold 2 billion of the 79 cents throwaway items since 1973. According to the litigants, the lighter is an unstable fire bomb that can self-ignite in housecoat pockets and purses and on car dashboards. Bic accidents have allegedly claimed the life of at least one victim, Ethel Smith of Tower City, Pa., whose husband is suing for $11 million. Other suits against the company * could easily mount into additional millions of dollars. In one of the first Bic cases tried in open court, Philadelphia Artist Cynthia Littlejohn last November...
When John Kennedy came back from his Vienna summit with Nikita Khrushchev in 1961 he was full of stories about the Soviets' possible intrigue, from smuggling a small atom bomb into the attic of their Washington embassy to monitoring his calls from the White House. How should the U.S. counter it? Kennedy was asked. Go into a protective cocoon? No, he replied, if we did that we would soon be like them. There probably was no answer, he insisted, until the Soviets changed...
With its tense plot wrapped in insider's jargon, State Scarlet follows in the tradition of Tom Clancy's best sellers, The Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising. In Aaron's book a disgruntled G.I. in Europe provokes the crisis by stealing a backpack-size nuclear bomb and threatening to detonate it unless the President withdraws nuclear forces from Europe. When the Kremlin hears about this, it activates its own crisis machinery, and the two sides inexorably proceed toward a macho nuclear confrontation. The chief of the Strategic Air Command warns that the C 3 system can absorb...
...cast's schedule constitutes idle luxury compared with life on the crew bus. At 7 on a Thursday morning, 31 hours out of Davenport's Adler theater and six hours out of the Coronado in Rockford, Ill., the crew bus sits at curbside in Peoria, a black bomb emitting oily blue smoke. The bus shudders intermittently as crew members wake and drop down out of their bunks. It shudders three times for Joe Burns, prop master: when he sits up and bangs his forehead on the bottom of the overhead bunk, when he flops back again on his pillow...