Word: raf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only hours later in Paris, a bomb exploded in a police annex on the Quai de Gesvres, instantly killing Chief Inspector Marcel Basdevant, 54, and wounding 22 police employees. The bombing was the work of Action Directe, a French terrorist band that trumpeted an alliance with West Germany's RAF last year...
...Weapons and Hope. For much of the book, Dyson, an English-born physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, rambles through a grabbag of topics. Dyson recounts the activities of his uncle in the trenches during the First World War, his own experience working with the RAF Bomber Command in World War II, and his encounter with an American military officer who squirmed with excitement when discussing the course of a nuclear...
Christopher Reeve, movie star (Superman, Superman II), after his glider ran out of thermal currents over England and was forced to land at a restricted RAF base: "What a thing to happen to Superman...