Word: mortars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week he was called to an expository task more complicated than usual. In three separate attacks, the I.R.A. had dropped 12 mortar shells into London's Heathrow Airport. Puzzlingly, none of them exploded. The only damage was to British nerves as flights were canceled and police shut down terminals to conduct security sweeps...
...Heathrow mortar shells ruin those hopes? Not at all, says Adams. The shells came during a "stalemate" in the process, and the attack might "have an accelerating effect upon the British government." Sinn Fein and the I.R.A. still want what they call "clarifications" from Britain before joining any talks. Until that happens, says Adams, "every so often there will be something spectacular to remind the world" that the conflict continues to boil...
...world's busiest international airport, London's Heathrow, came under | attack by mortar fire on two consecutive days. No one was hurt and no aircraft were damaged in the shellings. The Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for the attacks...
With Bosnian Serb forces near Sarajevo obeying the spirit if not the letter of the NATO ultimatum, Sarajevans continued to emerge warily from their mortar- pounded hideouts into a still uneasy peace. But a new phase of sniping has reportedly started, with gunmen using silencers to avoid detection by U.N. peacekeepers...
...Goldstein has seen to that. There was much talk in Washington last week about how sometimes it takes a great tragedy to bring movement toward peace by forcing statesmen to look at the hell into which they are drifting. Witness Bosnia, where the killing of 68 people by a mortar shell in the Sarajevo market brought a detectable, if far from conclusive, movement toward an agreement. It would indeed be one of history's rare beneficial ironies if Goldstein, against all his intentions, gave Israel and the P.L.O. a strong push down the road to peace. He could still succeed...