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...that the explosive was in fact dynamite or something similar; the pattern of blast damage is more consistent with dynamite than with the plastic explosives often favored by terrorists. Fox also believes that "the velocity of the blast indicates that ((the explosive)) is in the dynamite family, which includes TNT and the so- called witches' brew of fertilizer and fuel oil. Most of our guys who have been around a while seem to think that's what it will turn out to be -- witches' brew...
...Army's Jefferson Proving Ground in southeastern Indiana is littered with 1.5 million unexploded artillery shells; officials are torn between footing a $6 billion cleanup bill and simply padlocking the place and throwing away the key. In June a midnight blast equal to 4,700 lbs. of TNT rocked the sleepy Washington suburb of White Oak, Maryland, whose residents had long since forgotten the naval chemical-ordnance bunker in their midst. Says Ralph De Gennaro, senior specialist with Friends of the Earth: "Every day we learn more about the Pentagon's environmental pollution. The public still has only a piece...
Italians wondered how many deaths would be enough to prod the national government into effective action against the criminals it has long tolerated. A week before his death, Borsellino told friends, "The tnt for me has already arrived in Palermo." With estimated annual profits of $20 billion at stake, the Mob had decided that he knew too much about its inner workings to live...
...WHAT AMOUNTS TO AN OBSCENE GESTURE TO THE rest of the world, China exploded a nuclear warhead with a yield of 1 million tons of tnt at its underground test range in far northwestern Xinjiang province. It was the largest such blast the Chinese have ever detonated and far bigger than the 150-kiloton testing limit the U.S. and the former Soviet Union have been observing under a 1974 agreement...
...will broadcast 116 hours of the Games to viewers in the U.S. and parts of Canada, beginning with a two-hour preview at 8 p.m. EST on Feb. 6. Canadian viewers will get 175 hours of CBS broadcasts. The TNT cable network will show five hours of events on weekday afternoons...