Word: basement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Three, Sunday, June 16, the President, cutting short his weekend stay, returned from Camp David for his first official meeting on the matter with the National Security Council at 1 p.m. A dozen or so NSC members and staff gathered in the Situation Room in the White House basement for what was to be a 73-minute session. The President asked for a full range of options. "From the beginning," says a senior adviser, "he approved of the concept of using everything on the menu." McFarlane briefed the group on the goals of various Lebanese Shi'ite factions, focusing...
...Central American aesthetic traditions over an 800- year period. Says the St. Paul museum's curator of archaeology, Orrin C. Shane III: "The objects from the cenote are the single most important archaeological treasure ever recovered in the Americas." Incredibly, nearly all the pieces were stored in the basement of Harvard University's Peabody Museum in Cambridge, Mass., for 75 years, until Shane and one of Peabody's Maya specialists, Clemency Chase Coggins, set out three years ago to organize the traveling exhibition...
...Holworthy Hall fire alarm went off at 2 24 a.m. Friday morning, but police officers found no fire. Officials, however, found he glass on the dormitory's basement alarm broken and residents reported that three youths wearing black leather jackets were spotted before the false Officials were unable to locate the youths, according to the Harvard police blotter...
...took only hours. Wednesday morning, Berri summoned reporters and TV crews to the hot, crowded basement under his office in West Beirut to broadcast "my answer to threats from America." First, Berri announced the release of Palmer, 48, a hefty air-conditioning technician from Little Rock, who was seated next to him. Palmer suffers from high blood pressure and a heart condition...
...tired of Plympton Street head over to The Book Case (42 Church St.) Post cards and junk gifts fill the top floor and a labyrinth of used volumes make up the basement. Look in the six-by-six foot "Room A" for occult books, "Room B" for religion, and go to the store's Annex (33 Church St.) if you don't like reading in the dark. The Pangloss Bookshop (65 Mt. Auburn St.) is another sure bet for cheap used books, especially in the social sciences...