Word: shrapnel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stepped out of the elevator en route to his sixth- floor office in Salt Lake City, one arm filled with Cokes and doughnuts for an early-morning meeting. At his office door, Christensen, 31, reached down to pick up a cardboard parcel with his name on it, and a shrapnel-filled bomb inside blew up in his face, killing him. Some 90 minutes later, in the hilly suburb of Holladay southeast of the city, Kathleen Sheets, 50, returned home from a walk. She bent down to pick up a curious package, with her husband's name on it, sitting...
...antisatellite weapon, but it is primitive compared with the U.S. model. The Soviet ASAT is a 150-ft., 2-ton rocket designed to climb into orbit and chase down satellites around the earth. After closing with its target, the Soviet missile explodes, destroying the satellite in a hail of shrapnel. But while an F-15 can reach launching position within an hour of takeoff, the Soviets must wait for a target satellite to pass over their fixed missile launch pads, which could take up to twelve hours. The U.S. missile can reach its target within ten minutes of launch...
...long and 6 in. in diameter--were linked by detonating wires, suggesting to police that they had been fired by timing devices. Despite the apparent sophistication of the weapon, not all the shells found their target. Some fell in front of the station. One hit an observation tower, showering shrapnel onto nearby homes. Said Chief Superintendent Bill Stewart: "It was luck on the part of the I.R.A. rather than accuracy that gave them their direct hits...
Salonga is described by supporters as one of the few figures who might be able to bridge the gap between moderates and radicals in the opposition, a division that has long weakened the anti-Marcos effort. Blind in one eye, deaf in one ear and carrying 100 pieces of shrapnel in his body as the legacy of a political bombing in 1971, Salonga has denied any intention of running in the next presidential election, due in 1987, unless he is drafted. Still, his modesty is usually discounted and his name included on the increasingly crowded list of would-be candidates...
Seven people were killed, including Linda Frazier, 38, an American journalist who worked for an English-language newspaper in San Jose. Among the 28 injured was Pastora, who suffered first-and second-degree burns on his face and shrapnel wounds in his legs. Seriously hurt was Susan Morgan, a Newsweek stringer whose legs and arms were fractured. Some could crawl out of the building, but others lay moaning in the wreckage for nearly an hour before being pulled out. Two hours passed before a doctor and two nurses arrived...