Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group that bribed the Nazis to allow some Jews to leave Germany. After the war Korff was involved with the terrorist Stern gang, which fought to oust the British from Palestine. In 1947 he was arrested by the French for allegedly taking part in a bizarre plot to bomb London with propaganda leaflets attacking the British stand on Palestine. He denied any wrongdoing and the French later released him without trial...
...sides separated. Ever since, a U.N. force of about 2,000 men has been stationed on the island to police the borders between Greek and Turk enclaves. But despite the U.N. troops, fighting between the communities erupted again, and in August 1964, Turkey sent warplanes to strafe and bomb Greek positions on the island. The U.N. arranged a cease-fire that lasted until 1967, when Greece and Turkey again nearly went...
Police said that the explosion had been caused by a 10-lb. plastic bomb, planted under the cannon. Two minutes before it went off, a man identifying himself as a member of the Irish Republican Army phoned the London Daily Mirror saying: "We are planting bombs." He failed to say where the bombs were...
Kistiakowsky, a physicist who worked at Los Alamos, N.M., in the 1940s, developing the atomic bomb, called the recent Moscow summit talks a "complete and total fraud...
Jail Tunnel. The results, starting with Westlake's The Fugitive Pigeon in 1965, have brought new life to a neglected subgenre: the caper novel. In The Spy in the Ointment (1966), a typographical error on an FBI list caused a pacifist to become mixed up with bomb-throwing subversives. In The Hot Rock (1970), a raffish foursome engineered several fiendishly clever jewel thefts in search of a rare emerald that turned out never to be where it was supposed to be. In Bank Shot (1972), a suburban bank temporarily operating out of a mobile home was robbed...