Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Steiger's campaign was hurt early on when he was erroneously linked with the gangland-style slaying of Don Bolles, the Arizona Republic reporter who was killed by a bomb planted in his car (TIME, June 28). When Steiger went to the police to offer help in solving the slaying, headlines in the Republic gave the false impression that he was a suspect. Later, the newspaper endorsed Steiger, partly offsetting the damage...
...terrorists seized control of flight 355 by threatening that at least one of the group would detonate an explosive he had presumably carried on board under his clothes; such a bomb would not be detectable with present airport security systems. The leader was a beefy, bearded man. "He was the goon, but he was nice," recalled one passenger, James Perkins, a regional sales manager for Schenley. "He kept his hand in his pocket all the time, as if he had a gun." One of the skyjackers was a young woman who claimed she was an American and was married...
While that was being done, the skyjackers gave instructions to the pilot, who relayed them to the air controller. A bomb had been placed in a coin locker in the subway station at Grand Central Station in Manhattan. Along with it was a rambling 1,600-word "appeal to the American People" and a 2,500-word declaration of independence for the 4.4 million Croatians, who are a fifth of Yugoslavia's population. The terrorists demanded that these be published next day in five major newspapers (the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles...
...extracting the bomb and the messages from the locker, New York police took successful precautions. They were not so fortunate in attempting to defuse the bomb, which was sealed in a home pressure cooker. When a detonating device failed to explode the bomb, four policemen went to have a closer look, and the bomb suddenly went off. One officer, his chest blown away, died instantly. The others were severely wounded...
...that sum went on fees to a battery of lawyers who, through 17 public hearings and three sessions of the California Supreme Court, won permission to construct the fence and defended it against suits brought by worried environmentalists, who derisively called it "a roll of toilet paper." There were bomb threats, and rigging trucks were vandalized. "If they tear it down immediately afterward, that's all right," declared the unfazed Christo. "That's all part of the function of a fence. That's process art in action, with a coastal commission and a supreme court as sculptures...