Word: branches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which checked luggage was packed and then rolled into the cargo hold of the Pan Am 747 at London's Heathrow Airport. Two pieces of the container's framework were pitted and showed other signs that a "high-performance plastic explosive" had erupted near them. Scotland Yard's antiterrorism branch and the FBI jointly assumed the difficult task of finding out how the bomb got on the plane...
PARTING THE WATERS by Taylor Branch. The magisterial first of two projected volumes devoted to the U.S. civil rights movement takes Martin Luther King Jr. -- and a huge supporting cast -- through boycotts, sit-ins and marches...
...honorariums last year, often for delivering speeches at luxurious resorts. Last week a presidential advisory commission recommended a ban on this lucrative sideline, but at a price: a 50% increase in the lawmaker's salaries, to $135,000, along with pay hikes for the judiciary and top Executive Branch officials...
PARTING THE WATERS: AMERICA IN THE KING YEARS, 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster; $24.95). A biography as social history puts Martin Luther King Jr. at the center of the American revolution in race relations that began with sit-ins and Freedom Rides and ended with President Lyndon B. Johnson maneuvering a stalled civil rights bill through Congress...
...Algiers meeting reminded the world, the P.L.O. and its legislative branch, the P.N.C., still contain some ruthless men. A resolution that renounced terrorism in general terms still sanctioned attacks in Israel and the occupied territories; even as it was being adopted, Palestinian commandos with plans to hold a small village hostage were caught infiltrating Israel from Lebanon. The Algiers resolutions were read in front of a map that showed Palestine before Israel was created. And Abul Abbas, the demon of the Achille Lauro, was embraced by Arafat and seated as a member of the P.L.O.'s executive committee; Abul Abbas...