Word: april
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last savings bonds you should sell are any bought between October 1994 and April 1995. At the five-year mark, they carry an unusual one-time kicker that amounts to six months of interest...
...plight of Puerto Rico's Vieques Island. Navy Secretary Richard Danzig says the live-ammo range there is "an important and irreplaceable site," vital to assuring Navy and Marine combat effectiveness. But after two stray 500-lb. bombs killed a security guard and injured four other civilians last April, the island's 9,300 residents declared that they had had enough. Nowhere have they found more sympathy than in New York, a city that has one-quarter the number of Puerto Ricans that Puerto Rico...
Abdul Sankoh, 27, was a teacher until last December, when fighting between government and rebel forces closed his school. Now he is jobless and lives at the Murray Town amputee center in Freetown. On the morning of April 30, after hiding from the fighting for three days in the bush without food, he and another man went back to their village to look for mangoes to take to their friends...
...decided to do a DNA test of semen and hair found at the crime scene and compare them with Williamson's. Fritz's lawyers asked them to test Fritz too. Result? The DNA excluded both men and implicated someone else who had never been charged with the crime. Last April, after 12 years behind bars, Fritz and Williamson were freed...
SENTENCED. JOHN GOTTI JR., 35, son of mobster John Gotti; to 6 1/2 years in prison; in White Plains, N.Y. He had pleaded guilty in April to charges of bribery and extortion...