Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prince came and went without a hitch, but two bomb scares several hours after his 10 a.m. Foundation Day convocation sent officers scurrying in a fruitless search of the Harvard Square MBTA stop. Police were unsure whether the scares were related to Prince Charles's visit, but they were apparently not directed at the Prince himself, said Cambridge Police Detective Richard Gardiner...
Less noticeable than the police surrounding the royal entourage, but no less pervasive, were bomb-sniffing dogs, anti-sniper riflemen, and a host of security agents ranging from Harvard's own to Britain's Scotland Yard, all of whom guarded the British throne's heir apparent during his day-long visit...
...years ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04, a prominent son of Harvard and a product of the Eastern Establishment, celebrated the success of Harvard and its graduates and graciously accepted an honorary law degree from President James B. Conant '13, who would later work for Roosevelt in developing the atomic bomb...
...home, however, the Khomeini regime is increasingly harassed by the People's Mujahedin guerrillas. Last week a car bomb exploded in the bustling heart of the capital during rush hour, leaving 20 people dead. Three days earlier a similar explosion took 13 lives in the holy city of Qom. By week's end the government claimed to have crushed two Iraqi-sponsored "terrorist networks," made up of both monarchists and leftist guerrillas, that Tehran held responsible for the bombings. In London, another bomb shattered a video store belonging to Reza Fazeli, a vocal Khomeini critic. Tehran and the mujahedin blamed...
...outside world, the Lebanese Shi'ites are chiefly known for the brutal acts that have made the extremists among them the Middle East's most feared and persistent terrorists. Shadowy radical Shi'ite groups, like Islamic Jihad, have claimed responsibility for a murderous catalog of suicide bomb attacks, skyjackings and kidnapings. Among them: the April 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in West Beirut that killed 63, including 17 Americans; the blast six months later that reduced the barracks of the U.S. Marine peacekeeping force to rubble, killing 241; and the June 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight...