Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout the world, pro-Palestinian demonstrators conducted a campaign of violent protest. In Bangladesh, students stormed the Egyptian ambassador's residence and held him at gunpoint for eight hours. In Paris, a bomb exploded in a Jewish student restaurant, injuring 26, and two explosions in Israel killed one bystander and wounded 28. Still another bomb damaged the Israeli mission in Ankara. Even in Peking, a band Palestinian students marched on of the Egyptian embassy, smashed windows, tore down a portrait of Sadat and injured several Chinese soldiers...
...days after the vote that brought down the government, Britain was shaken by the unthinkable, the assassination of a shadow-cabinet member within the hallowed confines of Westminster. The Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.) claimed responsibility for planting a bomb in a blue Vauxhall driven by Airey Neave, 63, who would have been Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in a Thatcher Cabinet. It was the second assassination of a British official in as many weeks. Neave may have written his own epitaph with his views on I.R.A. terrorism: "The British public will become more resistant than ever." Still, the I.R.A...
...Judge Robert W. Warren of Milwaukee starkly defined the conflict: freedom of the press vs. national security. Last week Warren came down firmly on the side of the Government. He issued a preliminary injunction barring publication of a 3,350-word article in the magazine describing how a hydrogen bomb works. The injunction replaced a temporary restraining order he imposed March...
...Ambassador to Afghanistan Adolph Dubs was kidnaped and murdered by Muslim extremists, underscored the grim reality that diplomats have become prime targets for terrorists. By and large, security measures to protect the ambassadors are often surprisingly lax. Straub's parents said their son had told them of repeated bomb threats against the ambassadorial residence. Yet the ambassador had no bodyguard, the limousine was not equipped with bulletproof windows, and his residence was unguarded. Sykes' apparent disregard for his own safety seemed all the more astonishing since he had recommended tighter security for diplomats after investigating the assassination...
...week's end the killers were still unidentified, but there was strong speculation that they were hit men for the provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army. Last week the proves launched a bomb blitz in Ulster; in one two-hour period, there were 30 explosions in 16 towns. Sykes might have become a target for his 1976 security probe and because his embassy was monitoring the underground operations of ultra-left I.R.A. sympathizers in Holland...