Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bankers have been particularly angry. Morgan Guaranty, one of Chase's U.S. partners in the defaulted $500 million loan, went into a German court and attached Iran's 25% investment in two big German companies, Friedrich Krupp and Deutsche Babcock. Last Tuesday, a day after a terrorist bomb exploded outside the bank's Frankfurt office, Morgan obtained a second court lien on the same assets to cover yet a further Iranian debt. The German bankers had thought they would have first call on these assets if Iran failed to pay some of its German loans...
...Phnom-Penh's Samarki Hotel, where he had spent many a week monitoring the war. There, he says, "I found a shambles of broken glass, overturned furniture and mangled typewriters." The scene stirred memories for Scott: "I recalled that on the last night of U.S. bombing in Cambodia, the windows of the old hotel were rattling as usual. Then came dawn and a welcome silence. I flew over to Bangkok, drove north to Korat Air Force Base and interviewed the kid said to have dropped the last bomb." Scott's welcome last week was not marred...
Happy or not, the crackpots soon unleashed the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse, the atomic bomb. Ever since, Los Alamos, like Bethlehem in Judea, has been a place difficult to visit in a neutral frame of mind. Los Alamos is part rich, overachieving exurb beset by worldly goods and ills familiar all over the U.S., but raised to the nth power; part lonely company town. But, above all, it is an intellectual hothouse not quite like any other...
...Robert Oppenheimer suggested the mesa between the Jemez and Sangre de Cristo mountains as the site for "Project Y" because it was one of his favorite places to hike. When the Army came in 1943 to build the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and develop the bomb, the only real homes were the vacated faculty houses of the exclusive Los Alamos Ranch School for Boys. Their most prized features were bathtubs. The lowly had to rough it in barracks-like apartments on "Gold Street" or in the clanging metal "Denver steels" hastily built with shower stalls only. Bachelor Klaus Fuchs...
...bomb the hell out of them. This thing really pisses me off. Who knows what they're doing to those hostages, and they're already doomed to die. It's time we just did something." Bomb them, they agreed...