Word: bombs
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That was Hiroshima, Japan, on the morning of August 6, 1945. More than a quarter of a century later, the victims of the A-Bomb attack on Hiroshima still are suffering, but they are no longer silent...
Tsuyo Shima is a member of Hiseido, or the Second Generation of A-Bomb Victims. "Maybe you have visited the 'Peace Park', "he said to me. "The Japanese government has filled it with trees and flowers and a memorial for world peace. That is the place where the poorest A-Bomb victims used to live, but they were forced to evacuate so the government could build that park...
...Even these slums embarrass the government and periodically they have big fires here to clear out the people. This is the kind of life that A-Bomb victims are forced to live by the hand of the government...
That feeling was running strong in the Republic all week long. A bomb damaged Dublin's monument to the Duke of Wellington. Airport workers refused to service British airplanes, forcing flight cancellations. Toward the end of the week a mob of more than 1,000 badly damaged the British Rail ways office in Cork with fire bombs...
Londonderry remained quiet that night; it was said that the I.R.A. was ob serving a truce until the obsequies were finished. But the violence did not stop completely. In Belfast, a sniper killed a British sentry. A 100-lb. gelignite bomb exploded in a downtown department store, wounding nine civilians and two policemen. Two soldiers were slightly injured by sniper fire in the Catholic Andersonstown district. After the funeral it was business as usual for the terrorists and their sympathizers. In the Lower Falls Road district of Belfast, Catholics rioted for more than four hours and pelted army patrols...