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...grislier terrorist act occurred on Thursday when a bomb, concealed in a suitcase, exploded at Meenambakham International Airport in Madras, India, killing at least 29 people and destroying the customs area. Madras airport authorities, accustomed to frequent bomb hoaxes, had tragically ignored three telephoned warnings. -By Janice Castro. Reported by Bernard Diederich/Miami and Thomas A. Sancton/Paris

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Failed Security | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

...first, officials feared an Olympics-related terrorist act. But Los Angeles Fire Chief Donald Manning insisted that the Westwood disaster was "not in any way connected with the Games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Just Mowed Them Down: driver causes chaos and death in L.A. | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

...when it became more or less routine. The players were still shepherded around in buses (although the Iraqi team members did their laundry on Bow Street); police boats still patrolled the waters of the Charles around the Harvard bridge; passes were still closely examined, to make sure that any terrorist threat could be nipped...

Author: By Richard L. Callan, | Title: Soccer, Spectacle, and Drama | 8/3/1984 | See Source »

Your wife Effie's terrorist activities, do you ascribe them to a reaction against her wealthy matrimonial experience, with all the luxury and boredom which capitalism produces...

Author: By J.p. Oconnor, | Title: No Problem | 7/24/1984 | See Source »

...later Spark reveals that, however much Harvey objects, "The thought that Effie was a member of a terrorist band now excited Harvey sexually." Though Harvey and Effie are still in love with each other, they exaggerate their individual characteristics--Harvey with the Book of Job, Effie with a machine gun--in an attempt to prove how really separate they...

Author: By J.p. Oconnor, | Title: No Problem | 7/24/1984 | See Source »

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