Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American leaders, most of the military strongmen, thousands of security agents and local police were mobilized. Helicopters and sharpshooters positioned on rooftops kept constant watch. There were raucous right-wing demonstrations against the treaty and left-wing protests against the Latin American leaders, but they were kept under control. Bomb threats emptied the Washington Monument and several downtown buildings, however, and two bombs went off, one at the Soviet Aeroflot offices and another 100 yds from the White House. Anti-Castro Cubans claimed responsibility, though Fidel was not in town (Cuba was excluded from the Organization of American States...
...Inquirer first discovered a pervasive pattern of beatings and torture by homicide detectives-and then found that cops were equally tough. The Inquirer decided to investigate police lawlessness after one egregious case-that of Robert ("Reds") Wilkinson, a mildly retarded auto mechanic who was beaten into confessing the fire-bomb murder in 1975 of a woman and her four children. Wilkinson was freed after a federal investigation in which witnesses said they had been intimidated and brutalized. The Inquirer has been front-paging such exposés ever since...
...docudramas on Lee Harvey Oswald. Because people are more apt to spot a poor job of makeup than a perversion of the facts, historians worry about television's lopsided history lessons. Last year's Truman at Potsdam made out that his primary motive in dropping the A-bomb on Japan was not to end the war. In Truman's "own" words: "It is not Japan I'm trying to scare, but Russia...
...established industries?to ABC's sudden rise. It is as if, in the space of two years, Chrysler had surged past General Motors and sent Ford reeling back to Dearborn. Or ?to stretch the truth only a bit?as if China had discovered some mysterious, all-powerful Z-bomb and in victorious glee ordered both the White House and the Kremlin dismantled and shipped, boards and nails, to Peking...
...earth's core, had been slowly and quietly rising through cracks under the peak of the mountain, building up tremendous pressures and triggering repeated earth tremors that rocked Hokkaido. Finally, on Aug. 7, the 725-meter (2,400-ft.) Usu awakened with a roar like that of a bomb. A huge black cloud soared to a height of 12,000 meters (39,000 ft.). A dense shower of gray ash and chunks of porous, rock-like pumice poured out of the cloud...