Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though that progress was slight, the bombers were evidently determined to destroy it. Many Lebanese speculated that General Michel Aoun, the bitterest foe of the Arab League peace plan and the commander of fanatically loyal Christian forces in East Beirut, was behind the killing. Aoun has been outraged that the plan permits 40,000 Syrian troops to remain indefinitely in Lebanon. He had pronounced Moawad's election void and vowed to throw out the Syrians. Aoun is too weak to achieve that goal but was strong enough to cause havoc. Before the assassination, thousands of his mostly youthful supporters crowded...
...could scrub out those relatively large particles but not the much smaller molecules of poisonous gases. Scott Aviation did not point this out to the Navy. According to Duvall, when more meaningful tests were performed at his insistence, the devices failed. He says that the company ordered him to destroy the results and that he later resigned in frustration...
...West German police apprehended 16 suspected terrorists but then released all but two of them in October 1988, after discovering a cache of explosives and a bomb similar to the one used to destroy Flight 103 eight weeks later. Marwan Khreesat, a Jordanian who some authorities believe assembled the Pan Am bomb, was among those set free. Published stories contend that Khreesat was also a German intelligence agent; German authorities deny...
...City Council vowed last night to do everything in its power to save the large tree in front of the Harvard Lampoon castle on Bow St., despite a recent effort to destroy...
...Vellucci said in an interview that he originally planted the tree so that it would grow and cover the front of the Lampoon building. He said that "they" had tried to destroy it three times earlier, but the tree had always grown back...