Word: aug
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Daniel Casolaro believed he was on to a big story. He also thought it might be a dangerous one. Just a few weeks ago, the free-lance writer told his family in Fairfax, Va., that someone might try to kill him and make it look like an accident. On Aug. 10 he was found dead in a hotel room in Martinsburg, W. Va., where he had gone to meet an unnamed source. There were slash marks around his wrists and a note near his body. It read in part, "I'm sorry, especially to my son." The official verdict: suicide...
...RANGE WARS (PBS, Aug. 6, 9 p.m. on most stations). The usually mild- mannered National Audubon Society got into hot water with cattlemen (and the Ford Motor Co., which pulled its ads from an earlier showing on TBS) with this hourlong report on the dispute between environmentalists and ranchers over public grazing land in the American Southwest...
...deemed a security risk? Nothing Saad could have said would have been dumber." What is now certain as well, admits Salem Abdulaziz al-Sabah, the governor of Kuwait's Central Bank, "is that there will be a run on bank accounts when the current withdrawal restrictions expire on Aug...
...officials. The Emir also imposed a press censorship that continues to this day. Pressure against the government's autocratic tendencies began to rise in 1990, so the Emir created a National Council, an assembly that could question policy but not legislate. The council, which met only once before the Aug. 2, 1990, invasion, reconvened on July 9 and now meets weekly...
Between now and the scheduled start of the trial on Aug. 5, there will probably be a hearing to decide whether the women's testimony is admissible. The defense lawyers asked for a postponement to investigate the latest charges. They also argued for the trial to be moved to a different location, on the ground that an impartial jury cannot be found in Palm Beach County...