Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Waiting for Armageddon is, in a curious way, one of the morbidly titillating preoccupations of our time. Novelist Walker Percy has written of "the old authentic thrill of the Bomb and ... the heart's desire of the alienated man to see vines sprouting through the masonry." Since the days of the bomb-shelter boom in the early '60s, nuclear holocaust has receded a bit in the apocalyptic imagination, replaced now by visions of economic collapse-industry's furnaces grown cold, fleets of cars broken down, and frenzied looters rampaging in the street...
...mayors had no more success in finding ways to deal with what some of them called a ticking time bomb: the growing power and aggressiveness of government workers' unions. Some have the power both to paralyze cities and to block the re-election of any local officials who dare to defy them. The U.S. now has some 12 million state and municipal employees-double the number in 1960-and about one-third belong to unions. The largest general public-employee union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), has 700,000 members, from accountants to zookeepers...
...will be required between the Sinai negotiations and major movement on the Golan Heights and on the future of the West Bank. Washington will continue its refusal to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization until the P.L.O. accepts Israel's right to exist and stops terrorist acts like the bomb blast in Jerusalem two weeks ago that killed 14 people. (In revenge, Israeli forces last week attacked Palestinian camps in southern Lebanon, killing at least eleven people.) The U.S. will consult with Israel before making new peace proposals for the region...
...Soviet resistance. Later, he reported Roosevelt's choice of Harry Truman as his 1944 running mate before even Tru- man knew about it. But his biggest scoop was never broadcast: sailing home from the 1945 Potsdam Conference on a naval vessel with Truman, Beatty guessed that an atomic bomb was to be dropped on Hiroshima when Truman interrupted a poker game to confer with an aide and point to the city on a map. Beatty commented, "There was absolutely nothing I could...
...disengagement in the Sinai. Dinitz capped those talks with follow-up meetings at the State Department, then flew home to Israel to attend a crucial weekend meeting of Premier Yitzhak Rabin's Cabinet. As if to underscore the urgency of his mission, shortly after his return a terrorist bomb went off in Jerusalem's main square, killing 13 persons and injuring 72. It was the bloodiest incident in the city since the fighting that preceded Israel's founding...