Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...death brought more violence. Police armed with water cannons fought a pitched battle with 600 rampaging demonstrators in Frankfurt and quelled more rumbles in West Berlin, Munich and other cities. A West German soldier whose sympathy, police suspect, belonged to the terrorists was critically injured when a bomb he was carrying exploded near the Munich studio of the American Forces Network. Other bombs went off in Paris and Rome. At week's end authorities were taking special precautions to ensure that the dwindling number of young Germans who still follow Meinhof's black flag of anarchy...
...Currier House bells desk received a bomb threat at 12:40 a.m. this morning, prompting the House Masters and Harvard police to order evacuation of Currier buildings while the House was searched...
...recognized the reduction of U.S. aid to the Saigon government as a key factor in the war's outcome. Says Dung: "Nguyen Van Thieu was forced to fight a poor man's war." He adds that Saigon's "firepower had declined by nearly 60% because of bomb and ammunition shortages. Its mobility was reduced by half, owing to the lack of aircraft, vehicles and fuel...
...expect the tiny state of Israel to ward off the combined attack of 20 Arab states, the Soviet Union and her satellites without the Bomb is like having had David tackle an army of Goliaths without the slingshot...
...There are no massacres or bloodbaths, no massive terrorist force buildups, no panic or hysteria, no queues of people leaving the country. Journalists can travel safely with no fears of bomb explosions." That was the confident message of a propaganda letter recently printed up by Prime Minister Ian Smith's white minority regime in Rhodesia for circulation abroad. Last week that confidence was somewhat shaken. Apparently slipping across the Mozambique border, black terrorists roamed 85 miles inside Rhodesia, killed three whites, wounded two, and severed the only direct railroad link to South Africa. It was the deepest penetration...