Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joined 70 local security officers in sealing off the buildings. In the all-black Baptist gathering, the white man would have stood out, but the influx of dozens of plainclothes white security men preceding the President probably helped him to escape. Ford later addressed the convention without incident. Two bomb threats also were reported in the area but they turned out to be false...
Died. Sir George Paget Thomson, 83, British physicist and chairman of the wartime committee that confirmed the feasibility of building an atomic bomb; in Cambridge, England. Thomson's father, Sir Joseph, discovered the electron in 1897 and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1906; 31 years later, Sir George shared the same prize for his work on the wavelike movement of electrons. After the war, Sir George became a strong advocate of international atomic energy control...
Like a plague that has no remedy, the sectarian violence in Northern Ireland goes on and on. Once again, there are victims in England as well as in the troubled province of Ulster. Late last week a bomb exploded in the London Hilton Hotel, killing two people, wounding 28, and destroying the glass-and-marble lobby. It was the fifth bombing in or around London in the past two weeks. Scotland Yard believes that radical members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army are responsible for most if not all of the explosions...
...Palace and the American embassy, was filled to capacity with late-season tourists. Possibly 100 people were milling around in the lobby when the tragedy took place. Just before noon, a switchboard operator at Associated Newspapers got a call from a man with an Irish accent warning that "a bomb will go off at the Hilton in ten minutes." Squad cars arrived at the hotel, but police were still trying to decide how to clear the area when, according to Anthony Peters, who manages the British Airways desk, "there was an almighty explosion. The whole place went black. When...
Next morning, when buses began their first runs, a few whites tried to block them with their cars. But police quickly cleared the way. Later in the day there were other disruptions, including a march by 1,000 antibusing demonstrators in downtown Louisville and some bomb threats at newly integrated schools. The ugliest incident occurred in the afternoon, when 150 whites gathered outside Fairdale High School; many demonstrators parked their cars on the narrow two-way street leading to the school, preventing the eight buses filled with black students from leaving. The screaming crowd threw cups and empty soft-drink...