Word: roof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That unsettling possibility gained further credibility as details emerged about an explosion at the Tokyo international airport less than an hour before the Air India crash. As baggage from Canadian Pacific Flight 003 was being unloaded, a bomb suddenly ripped both the door and roof off the freight container, sending clothes and suitcases flying. The explosion killed two airport workers and injured four others. Had the flight not arrived from Vancouver a quarter-hour early, the bomb might have gone off while the 747, which carried 374 passengers and 16 crew members, was over the ocean...
...every turn, Hav's storybook past collides with the neon present. The annual Roof Race, Europe's oddest sporting event, sends multinational Havians sprinting across the peeling ruins left by Athenian, Czarist and British occupations. Noel Coward and Nijinsky played here in Hav's heyday; Nazis hid out among its elite residents. Present-day Havians are baffling shadows. The last pretender to the Turkish caliphate, a principal shareholder in Hav TV, tries to marry Morris to his vizier. She sips coffee with a Chinese financial pirate and recognizes a bartender at the opulent casino from his days at Harry...
...Soviets bought the building for its sweeping vistas of the bay, as well as its unobstructed microwave reception. The electronic gadgetry on the roof scans the airwaves and can pluck out conversations when a computer recognizes certain words or phrases. On a clear day, the Soviets can watch Navy aircraft carriers cruising under the Golden Gate Bridge and jets taking off from the Alameda Naval Air Station to the east. But the activity that truly intrigues the Soviets is 40 miles to the south, in Silicon Valley...
...twister to rip through a shopping center in Beaver Falls, Pa., tossing autos through plate glass windows as it went. "There was debris coming out of the top of the funnel," said Fireman Paul Gorby. "It was like a big runaway locomotive." The tornado peeled off the center's roof like a box top; rescue workers had to bring in a crane to lift fallen steel , girders that were pinning bodies below. Two people died and 30 were injured...
...Niles, Ohio, Toni Bonanno stepped out of an office building to confront a tornado roaring down the street. "Oh, God, please help me," she gasped. As she ducked in a doorway, the blast blew out the windows and tore off the roof. But she was unhurt. The twister cut a 200-ft.-wide swath through 3 1/2 miles of the town, killing at least eight. "There's nothing standing," said Niles Resident Betty Pompo. "Everything is completely wiped out. The people are walking around in circles...