Word: gatepost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attack on the ambassador's residence, the other five Palestinians made an equally inept attempt to blow up an empty Israeli Viscount airliner at Nicosia airport. They arrived in a blue Dodge Colt and a Land-Rover. As the Colt headed for the tarmac, it crashed into a gatepost. One of its two occupants fled through a field, but the other attacked a police guard by hitting him on the head with a hand grenade. The impact of the blow dislodged the grenade pin; the young guerrilla, afraid that he was going to blow himself up, threw the grenade...