Word: sq
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hundreds of shoppers were lunching in the self-service cafeteria of a suburban department store near Paris late last week when a bomb had exploded at precisely 12:29 p.m., devastating a 800-sq.-ft. area. Flying glass and debris wounded 41 people, two of them seriously. The blast came only four days after another bomb had ripped through a crowded post office at Paris' city hall, killing one person and wounding 18 others. Amid a wave of minor and apparently unrelated bombings across Western Europe last week, Paris remained the center of a brutal game of terrorist blackmail...
...dispute focuses on a piece of Alaska that extends 500 miles south along the British Columbia coast. Canadians deny U.S. claims that the strip's boundaries encompass some 300 sq. mi. of rich fishing grounds near British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands. In August, Joe Clark, Canada's Minister of External Affairs, rejected a request from Secretary of State George Shultz to negotiate the issue...
...least 300 people, many of them farmers from the surrounding hills, clogged the area's few hospitals, sharing beds with other victims while they awaited treatment for shock and burns. Perhaps another 3,000 refugees, displaced from their homes on the fringes of the affected 10-sq.-mi. area, were evacuated by army troops. All told, it was estimated that 20,000 lives were upended by the freakish disaster that was aptly, if ineloquently described by M. Peter McPherson, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, as a "Ripley's Believe It or Not event...
...will peak in a pyrotechnical dazzle put on by Tommy Walker, who helped stage the finale of the Statue of Liberty centenary. Skyrockets will spell out the name JOHN HANCOCK -- one of eight Harvard men, thank you, who signed the Declaration of Independence -- and at the climax a 700-sq.-ft. Harvard logo will be emblazoned on the night sky as the band plays Fair Harvard...
...region surrounding the plant will continue to be dangerous for years to come, the report says, with radiation levels as much as 2,500 times normal. Officials at last week's news conference said that 135,000 people have been evacuated from an area of more than 300 sq. mi. around the plant. Previous / estimates were 100,000. The evacuees will eventually be housed in 52 villages, most of them in the Makarov district, west of Kiev. More than 2,000 new homes have been occupied, and 5,000 more are planned. The houses are being donated to the people...