Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shock Waves. The first warning of the impending tragedy came at 8:11 p.m., when an Irish-accented male voice telephoned the Birmingham Post: "There is a bomb planted at the rotunda [a 17-story office block]; there is a bomb planted in New Street in the tax office." The warning was instantly passed on to the police, and patrol cars raced to the area. A quick check at the tax office revealed nothing. Moments later, at 8:20 p.m., a vicious explosion ripped through the Mulberry Bush, a pub beneath the rotunda that was jammed mostly with young people...
...minutes later, a second bomb blast transformed the nearby Tavern in the Town into an even grislier scene. The shock waves of the explosion rebounded between the walls of the underground pub, turning flying debris into deadly missiles. Water poured onto the floor and the ceiling fell, as frantic survivors stumbled toward the exit over the bodies of the dead and maimed. Susan Edkin, 18, and her fiance were celebrating their engagement. "People were shouting and screaming," she said later. "I remember there was a man lying on the floor who couldn't see because his eyes had gone...
There was little doubt about the reason for the Birmingham atrocity. Two weeks ago, an I.R.A. terrorist named James McDaid, 28, blew himself to bits while planting a bomb in Coventry, 15 miles east of Birmingham. On Thursday, McDaid's body was to be flown from Birmingham to Belfast for a "military funeral" and burial. The Shin Fein, the I.R.A.'s political whig, planned to turn the moving of his body from a Coventry mortuary to a Birmingham airport into a defiant and inflammatory hero's farewell. Some 1,500 police were on hand to enforce...
...explosions were also clearly part of a larger I.R.A. effort-inaugurated in March of last year with a bomb blast at the Old Bailey in London -to bring more of Ulster's terror to Britain. Although there are still doubts within the I.R.A. councils about the wisdom of this policy, it has given new exposure to the Provisional' campaign, which is lagging and stalemated at home. Their supporters are much less likely to criticize the Proves for bloodiness in Birmingham than they are for terror in Ulster...
...players that they would win ten games-a bold prediction considering that the team lost nine last season. Yet the players believed. Following the example of Coryell, who often works so late that he sleeps on the gold couch in his office, veteran Quarterback Jim Hart has put the bomb back in football, throwing seven touchdown passes of 40 yds. or more. Running Back Terry Metcalf has eluded tacklers for scoring sprints of 94 and 75 yds., and the young Cardinal defense has held opponents to an average of 16 points per game. The result: an impressive 7-2 record...