Word: fusing
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...another bomb killed Iran's general revolutionary prosecutor, Hojjatoleslam Ali Qoddousi, in his office near Tehran's Qasr Prison. Not even Khomeini is safe. Last month the guerrillas left a powerful bomb in his house at Jamaran, a village on the northern outskirts of Tehran, with the fuse removed to make certain that the device would not explode. In an attached note, the Mujahedin warned Khomeini to surrender...
...however, the problem is much more acute and threatening. Observes Machinists Union President William W. Winpisinger bluntly: "The most highly industrialized nation on earth is in danger of becoming a nation of industrial illiterates who do not know how to stop a running toilet, replace a burned-out fuse or identify anything on a car more complicated than the gas-tank...
Meanwhile, the U.S. and the Soviet Union, in a rare display of joint concern, consulted about the best way of cutting the fuse in Lebanon. Three times in nine days, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin called at the State Department. Moscow also dispatched its own emissary-Georgi Kornienko, First Deputy Foreign Minister -to tour the region in the same fashion as Habib. One Palestinian leader in Lebanon wryly reported that Soviet embassy officials had visited him, asking, "What do you think is going to happen? What does it mean?" He added: "They only come around when they are worried...
...abrupt; she seems transformed less by analysis than by the demands of her author's design. But this novel is a reminder that fiction can amaze as well as inform, that an imaginative leap can sometimes take flight. Thomas' talent almost matches his worthwhile ambition: to fuse the dreams of self with the nightmare of history. -By Paul Gray...
...fighting centered on Bulawayo, the country's second largest city. It is also one of the main locations where the government has been trying to fuse a national army by integrating the two rival guerrilla forces that fought for independence as the Patriotic Front: the ZANLA forces that were led by Mugabe and are composed mostly of Shona tribesmen; and the ZIPRA guerrillas, mostly Ndebele, who remain loyal to Joshua Nkomo. As last week's clashes intensified, ZIPRA and ZANLA units grabbed weapons from the camp's armory and summoned other former guerrillas to come help them...