Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five-hour closed session, both sides repeated old and familiar arguments: the U.S. insisted that the North Vietnamese were violating the peace accords by infiltration into the South; North Viet Nam pointed out that U.S. planes were continuing to bomb in Cambodia and claimed that bombing was taking place in South Viet Nam as well. Bombs were indeed falling in Cambodia, particularly around the Mekong River, which is a vital lifeline to Phnom-Penh. The Viet Cong, meanwhile, charged that some of their positions in South Viet Nam had been bombed by U.S. aircraft and demanded that the International Commission...
Emergency. The guerrillas pounded Beirut International Airport and nearby army installations with Soviet-made rockets and Chinese-made mortars. The army replied with heavy cannon fire from U.S.-made tanks. Terrorists raced through Beirut streets in cars, firing machine guns and hurling bombs at military and pro-Christian political quarters. One bomb, aimed at the Lebanese Officers' Club, bounced off a wall and exploded in front of the fashionable Phoenicia Hotel. Some rockets plunged into the gardens surrounding the presidential palace...
M.S.I.'s troubles started when its members' carefully nurtured public image as doppio-petti, or "double-breasted" (respectable), rightists, became fused with that of the delinquent bom-bardleri-Fascist bomb throwers. A recent wave of violence and terrorism perpetrated by the bomb throwers has so enraged many Italians that there are demands that M.S.I, be disbanded-an extraordinary step for a country that allows a wide spectrum of political activity...
...M.S.I, members and other right-wingers had scheduled a political rally. When the rally was banned because of political tension in the city, the demonstrators marched toward police head quarters. They were met by squads of helmeted policemen; rocks, Molotov cocktails and tear gas began to fly, and hand bombs were tossed toward the cops. One bomb struck a young police man in the chest, killing...
Following the policeman's death, Milan authorities launched a massive manhunt; some 60 neo-Fascist suspects were picked up and grilled. Trying desperately to exonerate the party from blame, M.S.I, leaders offered an $8,500 reward for the capture of the bomb throwers. Eventually, the party itself fingered the culprits: an unemployed la borer named Maurizio Murelli, 19, and Vittorio Loi, 22, the son of former Junior Welterweight Boxing Champion Duilio Loi. However, young Loi later told police that an M.S.I, bodyguard had assigned them to disrupt the rally...