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Unquestionably the council could take credit for snuffing the fuse to an explosive situation-though next day a new fuse sputtered briefly. On Christmas night a band of machine-gunning raiders slashed into tiny Puerto Soley, on Costa Rica's Pacific shore, shot up the town, set it afire, then scuttled back to Nicaragua...
...Cambridge from Oregon, where he worked as a logging blaster last summer. They said he had kept it in a chest in his room. Two weeks ago, the sources disclosed. Cross woke up Winthrop House sloepers by blowing up six sticks of his stock with a four-minute fuse and caps...
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...took one heliuva good football game to set the fuse. Then the firecracker burst brilliantly, violently, and briefly. Between halves, the near-nude Indian cheerleaders led their partisans out of the stands to set up a tepoe. A few of the locals offered half-hearted opposition, which resulted in a disruption of the band formations and little else...
...George Medal for "courage and devotion to duty of the highest order." Admonishing reporters not to "make a song and dance about it," Watts reluctantly gave a few pointers on method: "I started knowing that such a small object, to be explosive, had to have an acid-operated fuse or an electric current. Gentle prodding told me which. These letter bombs were all of the electric-fuse type. All I had to do was to find the wires between battery and fuse, snip them and breathe easily. The rest was just routine...