Word: bombs
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There is a still more alarming, if more remote prospect. Many of the poorest countries, though on the brink of mass famine, have enough resources and technology to produce atomic weapons. India exploded its first bomb 16 months ago; other states like Pakistan could follow suit. It is unlikely but not inconceivable that these economically desperate states, feeling they have nothing to lose, might try to use nuclear blackmail to get more help from the West. As Economist Robert Heilbroner writes in his highly pessimistic An Inquiry into the Human Prospect, "The resort to ultimate tactics is surely...
Klan Protests. Nonetheless, there are ominous signs that the worst may still be ahead for Louisville. Last week's rehearsal was marred by a false bomb threat and an orderly protest by 40 white parents. Furthermore, union members at a 17,000-employee General Electric plant in the county have threatened a walkout on the opening day of school to protest busing. Several Ku Klux Klan meetings have been held to denounce desegregation, and a cross was burned in a field near Fairdale. The Klan also plans a demonstration in downtown Louisville on the first day of school...
...some 40,000 workers in Chicago went out on strike for an eight-hour day, and their ranks almost doubled in four days. On May 4, at a meeting in Haymarket Square to protest a shooting by the police near the McCormick reaper works, a bomb was hurled at the police. A sergeant was killed and about 60 other policemen injured. Eight anarchists were tried in what became the most celebrated case in American labor history. Four were hanged, one committed suicide, and seven years later the remaining three were pardoned by Governor John P. Altgeld, an action that ended...
Matters soon looked more serious than the mayor admitted. A pipe bomb filled with black powder exploded on the front porch of Alioto's home in the exclusive Presidio Heights district. Alioto's wife Angelina was at home but was not hurt. A note left on the porch read: "Don't threaten us." The mayor announced that he felt that striking policemen were not implicated in the incident, and he resisted pleas that he call in the National Guard...
...year-old Siobhan McCabe, felled by a sniper's bullet apparently intended for a British soldier. Another was Samuel Llewellyn, 29, a Protestant truck driver who was delivering a load of paperboard in the Catholic Falls Road area of Belfast to help patch up windows shattered in a bomb blast the previous day. Although Llewellyn was making the delivery at the request of a Catholic welfare organization, he was dragged from the truck by a Catholic mob, beaten and shot five times...