Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violations in the Soviet Union gained headlines, but did nothing to change the Kremlin's stamp-it-out approach to political dissent. In a thoughtful article published in a special February issue of Trialogue, the bulletin of the Trilateral Commission, Physicist Andrei Sakharov, father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb and leader of his country's beleaguered dissident movement, offers Carter some advice on how to persuade Moscow's leaders to improve their human rights record without damaging detente. Excerpts...
...last Monday afternoon, a Chevrolet station wagon carrying five Palestinians drove slowly down the Rue Verdun in west Beirut. As it passed a parked Volkswagen, a huge plastique bomb turned the street into a violent shambles of smoke and flames. The occupants of the station wagon were mortally wounded; four passersby, including a German nun and an English student, were killed, and 18 others were injured...
...someone parked the Volkswagen in the Rue Verdun about 100 yds. from Abu Hassan's apartment. Palestinian investigators speculate that Penelope had been watching the street from her apartment as Abu Hassan arrived an hour later, and that she used a radio device to detonate the bomb at the precise moment his station wagon passed the Volkswagen. In fact, TIME has learned the explosion was set off by a timing device that Israeli agents had planted on Abu Hassan...
...explosion of 250 milliliters of pure nitroglycerine "would leave a medium-sized room in an absolute shambles," and could have endangered students taking exams in the adjoining lecture halls, George B. Kistiakowsky, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry and one of the developers of the atomic bomb detanator says...
...chance to do it over again, would you participate in the invention of the Soviet hydrogen bomb...