Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Simulators make noise? like hand grenades, but they can be changed by hand so as to fragment, according to our bomb experts," Phillips told The Crimson last night...
...respond to greater force with increasingly violent tactics of his own. A good example, says Hubbard, is the sky-marshal program. "Before marshals arrived on the scene, skyjackers were arming themselves with pistols. When the Government escalated, so did the hijackers; now they use a pistol and a bomb." To make things worse, the Government has virtually abandoned the marshal program, yet has made only a low-key-and little noticed-announcement to that effect. As a result, skyjackers have not reduced their armaments. Similarly, an offer by pilots and airlines to pay $25,000 for information leading...
Danger in Europe. So went the continuing underground war between Arabs and Israelis. After the massacre of eleven Israelis at Munich (TIME cover, Sept. 18), an Israeli diplomat was killed in his London office by an exploding letter bomb. Four weeks later in Rome, an Al-Fatah propagandist who worked as a translator for the Libyan embassy was killed by a dozen shots that hit him as he walked out of his apartment house. Rome police have still not been able to decide whether his assailants were Israelis or members of the anti-Palestinian Jordanian intelligence service...
...long fight for independence from Britain. He has a shorter temper nowadays, and is sometimes given to emotional outbursts. He is known to have been disturbed by a split within his party caused by the defection of Kapwepwe and a number of his followers. Last May a mysterious parcel-bomb exploded in Kaunda's office but the Zambian leader was away at the time. Kaunda's nervousness can also be attributed to his country's economic problems. Despite the drop in copper revenues, Kaunda is under pressure from his countrymen to maintain the momentum of development...
...radio promotion for the old American Mercury magazine, then published and edited by Spivak, Meet the Press moved to NBC television in 1947 and, with its Sunday broadcasts, quickly became a prime supplier of Monday morning headlines. Americans got their first official word of the Russian atomic bomb from an inadvertent remark made by General Walter Bedell Smith on a 1949 program. Thomas E. Dewey used the show in 1950 to eliminate himself from the presidential race and to tout Dwight Eisenhower as the 1952 Republican nominee. John F. Kennedy made his debut on MTP in 1951 as a young...