Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cuban exiles marched out of a Washington courtroom last week. The dramatic defiance drowned out the sobbing of shocked relatives, but only for a moment. Two of the men, Guillermo Novo Sampol, 39, and Alvin Ross Diaz, 46, had just been found guilty of first-degree murder in the bomb-killing in Washington of former Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier, 44, on Sept. 21, 1976. A third, Guillermo's brother Ignacio, 40, was convicted of perjury and failure to report a crime...
...political prisoners: In January, demonstrators paraded a man who was blind and had lost his arms. They said SAVAK did this to him, and they called him a hero. In fact, he was a terrorist who lost his sight and was maimed when a bomb he was making exploded. If SAVAK had been responsible for his injuries, we could easily have got rid of him. We would not have let him live as a document of torture...
Arab students in Israeli universities, calling themselves the Progressive Nationalist Movement, last month published a statement in favor of the Palestine Liberation Organization and against the "Zionist entity." At Haifa University, firebrand American Rabbi Meir Kahane called the Israeli Arabs "a time bomb in the Jewish state." Right-wing Jewish students then circulated petitions demanding the expulsion of all Arabs from Israeli universities...
...help. Einstein himself may have had only the faintest idea of the recent progress in nuclear physics, but after a briefing by Szilard and Wigner he agreed to write a letter to President Roosevelt alerting him to the possibility that the Nazis might try to make an atomic bomb. That letter is popularly credited (though its precise effect is unclear) with helping to persuade Roosevelt to order up the Manhattan Project, which produced the first atomic weapons...
Later, when A-bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Einstein expressed deep regret. After the war, he apologized personally ?and in tears?to visiting Japanese Physicist Hideki Yukawa. On another occasion, he said, "Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in developing an atomic bomb, I would have done nothing for the bomb...