Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the February fighting, several families left Tenancingo. Within days, however, all had returned and a few new families had even joined the effort. "We are fine," says Demetrio Archila, 45. "The planes come by, they look at us, but they let us keep working. Now they don't bomb in the town, only outside it." That may be a small achievement, but it presents a ray of hope for many Salvadorans. "We don't need bombs or projectiles," says one townsman."We just want to be left alone. We hate this damned...
...better yet, it runs up against a brick wall: how can the quiet rationality of a policy investigation make sense of police who machine gun like gangsters, a city that drops a bomb on itself, firemen who start fires and watch them burn? The whole thing is a demonic inversion...
Goode and others described the bomb dropped from a helicopter as an "entry device." Aside from the fact that some cop appears to have loaded the bomb with extra explosive above and beyond the call of sanity, the idea of using a small explosive just to gain entry is strategically sound. If it had worked, if it had dislodged the armored bunker on top of the row house, the whole thing might have ended a swift, successful anti-terrorist strike...
Even more so than the bomb, the committee found "unconscionable" the use of the fire as a "tactical weapon." Yet, what is so demonic, so "unconscionable" about the tactics of letting the fire burn to force the people out of the building, is that it's so rational. So pathologically rational. So...unconscious. The strategic rationality of standing around on the scene, walkie-talkie in hand, and issuing orders to let the fire burn runs right over into unreason, into the unconscious in "unconscionable...
Forum President James W. Peck-Gray said that to his knowledge there has never been a bomb threat at a forum. He said that the scare is not anticipated to have any effect on future speakers...