NEWS
February 14, 1987 | United Press International
Iraqi warplanes attacked Tehran for a third straight day Friday after a "terrible night" of air raids that plunged the Iranian capital into darkness for hours, residents said. Iran claimed it later retaliated by firing a missile at Baghdad. Iraqi jets dropped bombs and fired missiles in three separate attacks on the capital. The official Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA, said scores of people were killed and many houses were destroyed in the raids.
NEWS
July 25, 1987 | From Reuters
An Israeli government source Friday dismissed an accusation by Moscow that Israel is threatening Soviet security by producing a nuclear-capable missile. Radio Moscow's daily Hebrew-language broadcast said Thursday that development of the Jericho II surface-to-surface missile threatens Soviet security and amounts to a nuclear challenge to the Soviet Union. A spokesman for Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said there would be no Israeli reaction to the charge.
WORLD
December 17, 2009 | By Ramin Mostaghim
Iranian authorities confronted their international and domestic rivals Wednesday, angering the West by testing a high-speed missile and raising political tensions at home by warning reformist opposition leaders they could be arrested. Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, Iran's defense minister, lauded the latest test-firing of the Sejil-2 surface-to-surface missile, which was broadcast on television in Iran. He praised the upgraded version of the missile for "its remarkable speed in entering the atmosphere, its strong impact and its radar-evading covers," and for its quick blastoff time, state television reported.
NEWS
October 14, 1987 | CHARLES P. WALLACE, Times Staff Writer
An Iranian surface-to-surface missile scored a direct hit on a Baghdad elementary school Tuesday, killing 29 children and three adults and wounding 218 other people, according to a statement issued in the Iraqi capital. Most of the wounded, 196 of whom were children, were in serious condition, the statement said. A government communique declared that it is "Iraq's right and duty to reply to this heinous crime. They want a 'war of the cities' and they will get it.
SPORTS
January 13, 1995 | JEFF FLETCHER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Folks at Royal High have battled through years of red tape to come this close to a football stadium they can call their own. The last thing they want is conflict. But that's just what they have. The barroom argument over grass vs. artificial turf has crept into meetings of the Royal Stadium Committee and created a local stir.
WORLD
October 4, 2002 | From Times Wire Reports
With border tensions between South Asia's nuclear neighbors running high, Pakistan test-fired a new surface-to-surface missile today, its state-run news agency said. India was given prior warning of the test, according to Associated Press of Pakistan. The missile is one in a series of medium-range missiles developed for Pakistan's arsenal.