Word: carly
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Naples police traced the rental car to Junzo Okudaira, 39, a notorious member of the Japanese Red Army, a terrorist organization with ties to radical groups in Lebanon. Witnesses said a man resembling Okudaira drove the car past the USO club several times looking for a parking spot. When he found one, he left the auto in a hurry. Shortly afterward it exploded. A Japanese woman accomplice was also being sought...
...explosive experts flew to Italy to see if the bombs in New Jersey and the blast in Naples were connected. The Naples suspect, Okudaira, was sought for a similar car-bomb attack on the U.S. embassy in Rome last June while President Reagan was attending a seven-nation economic summit in Venice. Okudaira's organization is believed to have trained in Lebanon with Islamic Jihad, a Shi'ite Muslim group with ties to Iran. Responsibility for the Naples explosion was claimed by various factions of Islamic Jihad, one saying the attack was in retribution for the U.S. air assault...
...Cypress bingo parlor is a corrugated-tin warehouse the size of an airplane hangar. It is surrounded by ramshackle houses and lots of old cars rusting on cinder blocks and stray dogs with mange and a few horses and small herds of cattle grazing in the swampy heart of South Florida that is the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation. It seats 5,600 players and is the largest bingo parlor in the world. Every Saturday and Sunday morning, players are flown in from foreign countries, bused in from Canada and 38 states, bused in from every city in Florida...
...market in just four days. First Hachette agreed to pay $448.6 million to purchase Connecticut-based Grolier, the publisher of the Encyclopedia Americana. Then the French firm paid $712 million for Diamandis Communications, the owner of a dozen magazines, including Woman's Day (circ. 6 million), Car and Driver (919,000) and Stereo Review...
...incidents, at the Geneva summit in 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev seemed to be getting the better of Reagan in quotesmanship, Speakes recalled in a phone interview last week. As he rode along frigid Lake Geneva in his car, he searched his notes for a good Reagan quote to feed the ravenous media. He knew Reagan's reasons for going to the summit. He knew he could put them into words the President would approve. Propelled by the intensity of the moment and his sense of power, he slid into deceit...