Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...P.L.O. faction against another. P.L.O. fighters have been shot at not only by ) Israelis but by Jordanians, Lebanese, Syrians and each other. In 1978 a bomb demolished the eight-story Beirut headquarters of Abbas' Palestine Liberation Front, killing more than 180 people. Presumed bombers: a rival faction. Presumed target: Abbas, who had left the building before the blast...
...first glance, a painting like Cake Window (Seven Cakes), 1970-76, might seem to reflect the familiar Warholian message of pop: uniformity within glut. But no. Its target is specificity, the peculiar qualities of fluorescent light (no less difficult to convey than those of sunlight or moonlight), the lush mortuary blue of the shadows, the buzzing glitter of the whites. Light is trapped in the dense paint, and Thiebaud extracts a lavish, slightly mocking sensuality from the pun between the depicted work of the cake icer--smearing those layers of sweet goo, drawing arabesques with the forcing...
...congratulating him for the bold midair interception of the four Palestinian hijackers of the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro. In Boise, admiring supporters erupted in cheers as Reagan declared he was "most proud" of the U.S. Navy F-14 pilots who were able to pinpoint their EgyptAir Boeing 737 target in the Mediterranean darkness and, as he put it puckishly, "persuade" it to land in Italy. His declaration that "there is a new patriotism alive in our country" reflected the widespread joy felt by the American public at finally getting a chance to strike back against terrorism. When reporters asked...
Although it is still unclear how strictly the decree will be enforced, it had the effect of ratifying the sorts of measures the Sandinistas have been taking in recent months without the cloak of law. Their main target seems to be Nicaragua's Roman Catholic Church, led by the charismatic Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo. Days before Ortega's speech, Sandinista security agents had seized 10,000 copies of Iglesia, a new Catholic newsletter. Then just hours before the speech, government agents closed the magazine's office and seized its printing equipment. Apparently the publication offended the Sandinistas because...
...bomb manufacture, as well as rare books and valuable documents relating to the Mormon Church. Hofmann, it seemed, had accidentally set off a bomb of his own making. After eight hours of surgery, Hofmann, who was expected to survive, maintained from his hospital bed that he was a target, not an assailant. But police say he is the primary suspect in the deaths of Christensen and Sheets...