Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...welcome an envoy sent by his South Yemen counterpart, Salem Robaye Ali, 43. Unknown to the visiting diplomat, however, his black leather briefcase, which actually contained Robaye Ali's proposals for a possible merger of the two states, had somehow been switched with one that contained a bomb. When the envoy opened the case in Ghashmi's office, the explosion killed both...
Blaming South Yemen for the murder, North Yemen immediately broke off relations. President Robaye Ah', however, had nothing to do with the assassination. The man behind the bomb, Western and Arab observers suspect, may have been Robaye Ali's longtime rival, Abdel Fattah Ismail, 38, an ardently pro-Soviet member of South Yemen's Presidential Council...
...explosion sounded like a belated, booming finale to the fireworks display at the Palace of Versailles. Thus, when an agitated watchman telephoned the local police station one night last week, the flics at first assumed that his report of a bomb blast was just another complaint by an angry Versailles resident about the racket over at the chateau. Earlier that evening, 50,000 people had trekked out to the magnificent 17th century palace-home of France's royal court until the revolution of 1789-for a fireworks festival celebrating the arrival of summer. While Roman candles and rockets cannonaded...
...Joshua Nkomo, one of the co-leaders of the Patriotic Front, was killed by a land mine last week, the result, said the Zambian government, of a factional rivalry within the Nkomo camp. The victim was Alfred Mangena, 35. His predecessor, Jason Moyo, had been killed by a letter bomb two years ago, also because of intra-Front rivalries, and Mangena himself had been wounded in an assassination attempt earlier this year...
...movie actors are overrewarded in our society, and that the press has to cut people like me down to size. So they come up with all sorts of wild things. They make me into an insane eccentric with an incredible fear of losing my youth, who lives in a bomb shelter, who contemplates or is going through plastic surgery, who has devastating relationships with women. It goes through cycles. First they say that women like me too much; then that women don't like me at all; then that they like me too much again. Somewhere along the way they...