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...weaponry-Soviet-model rocket launchers-to fire at British military targets. In the Irish Republic to the south, the terror that the North has known for three years suddenly made its appearance. Car bombs went off outside a labor union hall and a Dublin department store, and a parcel bomb exploded in a late-night cinema. Two were killed, and over 140 injured...
...airports in the mid-1960s, before Congress acted, and both worked out bold new schemes. The key ingredient: empty space. Kansas City bought and took options on 10,400 acres just 17 miles from downtown. The Texas cities dropped their traditional rivalry to purchase 17,400 acres-a parcel larger than Manhattan Island-midway between them. The extra land around the runways forms a buffer between airport and community; it is reserved for light industry, warehousing and other uses unaffected by the roar of jetliners...
...long fight for independence from Britain. He has a shorter temper nowadays, and is sometimes given to emotional outbursts. He is known to have been disturbed by a split within his party caused by the defection of Kapwepwe and a number of his followers. Last May a mysterious parcel-bomb exploded in Kaunda's office but the Zambian leader was away at the time. Kaunda's nervousness can also be attributed to his country's economic problems. Despite the drop in copper revenues, Kaunda is under pressure from his countrymen to maintain the momentum of development...
...this outing, Bob Hope unpacks a parcel of sleazy, wheezy gags about Bing Crosby, Martha Mitchell, New York City, Women's Liberation, wom en's undergarments and Georgie Jessel. For a little change of pace, he tosses off a Billy Graham joke...
...letters had been mailed from Amsterdam on the weekend. Each of them had been specifically and neatly addressed and bore the exact postage for its slender weight. Unlike the old-fashioned parcel bombs, the new devices came in ordinary manila or airmail envelopes...