Detonation

Hilburn is not alone in his response to Bolton's musical detonation. I happen to work in an office where the P.A. pipes in one of those "easy listening" stations. But the listening is never easy when a Bolton number comes up in the all-too-frequent rotation. If love is supposed to hurt, Bolton must have it really bad. I just don't know how he can hold a microphone and sing at the same time. KEVIN GILLOGLY Van Nuys

Moshe Dayan, the one-eyed general who led Israel to military victories in the 1956 Suez war and the Six-Day War of 1967, believed in what he called a "detonator" strategy for the Jewish state. "When someone wishes to force on us things which are detrimental to our existence, there will be an explosion which will shake up wide areas, and realizing this, such elements in the international system will do their utmost to prevent damage to us. " Speaking to Israel's military elite after the Suez campaign, Dayan acknowledged that his was not a "constructive thesis.

The number of bombings in the United States in the first six months of this year decreased by 6%, compared to the same period a year ago, the FBI said. The bureau said explosive bombings were down 3%, while incendiary bombings declined 20%. Of the 362 incidents reported this year, actual detonation or ignition occurred 306 times. Only one bombing was attributed to a terrorist group, which the FBI did not identify.

The FBI has been brought in to help investigate a cache of explosives — grenades, blasting caps and fuse igniters — found in a backpack under a bridge in Placentia on Monday. Orange County bomb squad officials were brought in after the backpack was discovered about 8:50 a.m. Monday by people working in a drainage ditch, Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino said. After cordoning off the area, bomb technicians detonated the contents of the backpack, including six grenades, blasting caps, fuse igniters and blasting powder.

An explosive device that malfunctioned during a Navy training exercise is missing in the ocean near the Hotel del Coronado and could pose a danger should it wash up on the beach, officials said. The device is a time-delay demolition charge used to blow up enemy mines. The Navy said it was attached to a fake mine during an explosives drill 300 yards off the coast Friday. The primary charge exploded as intended but did not trigger a complete detonation. Officials said it would take great pressure and an ignition source for the device to explode, but anyone who comes across the explosive is asked to leave it alone and call 911.

The two makeshift bombs in U.S.-bound packages found on cargo planes Friday in England and Dubai were wired to explode, at least one via a cellphone detonator, U.S. officials said Saturday. In Yemen, where the packages originated, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said in a short news conference late Saturday that authorities had identified a woman who was suspected of involvement in mailing the packages. The Associated Press reported that the woman had been arrested. Saleh said Yemeni forces acted on a tip from U.S. officials, who had passed on a telephone trace.

A malfunctioning golf cart, a faulty electrical system or even arson could have led to the fire that triggered the deadly explosion of a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, but federal and state officials said Thursday that their $1-million investigation had yet to find the cause. Fourteen people died in the April 17 blast, including 12 first responders who arrived nine minutes after the fire was reported - and just eight minutes before the explosion shook the town, devastated two schools and shattered a nursing home.

Moshe Dayan, the one-eyed general who led Israel to military victories in the 1956 Suez war and the Six-Day War of 1967, believed in what he called a "detonator" strategy for the Jewish state. "When someone wishes to force on us things which are detrimental to our existence, there will be an explosion which will shake up wide areas, and realizing this, such elements in the international system will do their utmost to prevent damage to us. " Speaking to Israel's military elite after the Suez campaign, Dayan acknowledged that his was not a "constructive thesis.

The detonation of three, 30-year-old artillery shells found at Rocketdyne's Santa Susana Field Lab has been postponed until today because county fire officials were working to extinguish small blazes Monday. The exact origin of the three small shells--all a foot or less long and believed to be live--is not known. Workers engaged in a $55-million cleanup of Rocketdyne's property found the devices Wednesday in a brush-covered ravine in the Happy Valley-area field lab.

A maintenance worker cleaning out a portable storage shed Tuesday afternoon discovered a box filled with sticks of old dynamite. The worker called police at 3 p.m. after discovering the box, which was leaking and had the word "dynamite" written on it, Irvine Police Sgt. Gary Shull said.

Bomb blasts targeting Shiite Muslim gatherings Tuesday in two Afghan cities killed at least 59 people and injured 150, a rare outbreak of sectarian violence in a country racked by 10 years of war with Taliban insurgents. A noontime blast in Kabul, the capital, involved a suicide bomber hidden among a throng of Shiite worshipers outside the Abul Fazal Abbas shrine, said Gen. Mohammed Zahir, head of criminal investigations for the Kabul police. That attack killed at least 55 people and injured 134, the Interior Ministry said.

Federal environmental officials were planning to detonate at least one canister of highly volatile gas at a Sylmar industrial park early Sunday and were set to shut down a portion of the 210 Freeway as a safety precaution. Authorities say that a canister of gas, a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen, is too volatile to move. Instead it will be exploded on site at Rainbow of Hope, an alternative energy company at 12349 Gladstone Avenue. An August explosion at the building ripped a hole in the roof and blew two workers onto the street, officials said.

A coordinated attack involving a remote-control bomb blast and a female suicide bomber killed seven people in Peshawar on Thursday, ending a stretch of relative calm in the volatile northwest city. The blasts occurred at a police checkpoint in the city of 1.4 million people perched on the edge of Pakistan's tribal belt along the Afghan border, where Taliban militants and their allies maintain strongholds. Plagued by scores of suicide bomb attacks in recent years, Peshawar has seen a lull in militant violence in the last few weeks.

A car bomb and a smaller explosive device detonated Tuesday morning close to a parking area for municipal employees in a town outside Baghdad, leaving 36 people dead and 54 wounded, according to police and hospital sources. The blasts occurred as people reported to work at the municipal building in Taji, 12 miles north of the capital. Late Monday, at least three more people were killed and 13 wounded when a Katyusha rocket was fired into Baghdad's Green Zone enclave, home to enbassies and the Iraqi government.

"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" will easily crush the competition at the box office this holiday weekend, but its debut won't be as mighty as the previous installments in the robot franchise. The third "Transformers" film, which cost about $200 million to make and is the first in the series to be released in 3-D, opened Tuesday evening in the U.S. and Canada. On its first full day in theaters, the movie collected $37.3 million, marking the biggest single day for any picture released so far this year.

An insurgent dressed as an Afghan soldier opened fire Monday inside the Defense Ministry, killing two soldiers in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the Afghan and French defense ministers, officials said. The attacker, who was also armed with explosives, struck the ministry before noon, ahead of a joint press conference the ministers had scheduled. He was shot and killed by Afghan soldiers before he could detonate his explosives, said Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi, a Defense Ministry spokesman.

The French navy said Thursday that one of its mine-hunting ships patrolling international waters in the Persian Gulf had tracked down and detonated two mines.

Terrorists bombed businesses in two West German cities today, and authorities warned that "spectacular attacks" are possible during the seven-nation economic summit meeting that opens in Bonn on Thursday. Leftist extremists opposed to the summit, to be attended by President Reagan, claimed responsibility for three bomb blasts in Cologne and Duesseldorf. The explosions caused extensive damage to a chemical concern, an employers' association and a bank, but no injuries.

A suicide bomber dressed as an Afghan soldier attacked a joint Afghan and NATO forces base in eastern Afghanistan Saturday morning, killing five NATO troops and four Afghan soldiers in one of the deadliest attacks on coalition forces in recent days. The bomber detonated a vest packed with explosives at the entrance to Forward Operating Base Gamberi in Laghman province at about 7:30 a.m., according to Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi. NATO officials declined to release the nationalities of those killed.