Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After three American soldiers were killed when the rocket motor of a Pershing II missile caught fire in Germany last January, the Army launched an investigation into the cause. The review, however, disclosed a different kind of peril: the ill-concealed missiles were subject to terrorist attacks. With this in mind, the Army last month sent a letter to Congress stating that the highly accurate weapons were "extremely vulnerable," and requested $1.8 million to improve the security of the approximately 50 nuclear missiles that / the U.S. has already deployed in Germany...
...best-seller ranks elsewhere and may even reach the silver screen. The story, which they jointly hatched five years ago during a coffee break while waiting out an all-night filibuster, concerns Thomas Chandler, an upstanding Connecticut Senator with presidential aspirations who gets caught up in a Soviet terrorist plot as well as in the net of a beautiful female aide. Cohen and Hart, anxious about the book's reception, have sent copies of the thriller to every Senator; most of them relish the depiction of the Senate, and some find certain aspects very familiar. Barry Goldwater told Cohen...
...fire, then fled, scattering handbills along the way. When firemen arrived on the scene a few minutes later, the van exploded, killing two of the fire fighters. The blast also injured twelve passersby. Belgian Justice Minister Jean Gol called the incident part of a concerted, Continent-wide terrorist campaign. Four other bombs also went off last week in Cologne and Dusseldorf, West Germany, intended to protest the economic summit of the major industrialized nations...
...leaflets left by the Brussels terrorists, a group calling itself the Fighting Communist Cells claimed responsibility for the blast. The organization is believed to have links with other leftist terrorist organizations, including Action Directe in France and the West German Red Army Faction. Bereaved Brussels firemen responded by issuing their own communique, declaring, "We mourn our comrades, cowardly assassinated this night. The First of May will not be a holiday for some 1,000 Brussels workers, the fire fighters...
What red-blooded American doesn't love graphic stories about killing IRA gun runners. Basque terrorists, Syrians, Druze, and Iranian lighters who after all are the scum of the earth? I like Dirty Harry, Rivers doesn't mess around with stupid questions like "who is responsible" or "Is it legal." He gets right down to the good stuff, like now to blow up a terrorist's Renault while he is sticking his head under the hood...