Word: callings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard police evacuated University Hall yesterday afternoon after a secretary received a phone call warning that a bomb had been planted in the building...
...this point, we have no idea of who made the call," which reached the office of Associate Dean of the Faculty Robert A. Rotner, said Jack W. Morse, deputy chief of the Harvard Police. "But it will be worth 20 years in the penitentiary if we find out who did it," Morse said...
Morse would not comment on the sex of the caller, or on the police department's efforts to identify the caller. The secretary who received the call which prompted the scare was unavailable for comment...
...call came before 5 a.m., summoning the chief court physician to the bedside of the ailing monarch. Since September, when the aging Emperor was first stricken with internal hemorrhaging, he had remained in a second-floor bedroom of his residence within the walled, moated and heavily wooded grounds of the Imperial Palace. A victim of duodenal cancer, he grew weaker each day. Dr. Akira Takagi rushed into the palace within minutes of the summons, followed closely by Crown Prince Akihito and his wife Crown Princess Michiko, then by Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita. At 6:33 a.m. Emperor Hirohito, once worshiped...
...recent years, there have been claims that poison gases have been used by Libya against Chad, by Viet Nam against Kampuchean rebels and by Iran and Iraq against each other in their recently concluded war. It was Iraq's slaughter of the Kurds that prompted President Reagan to call for the Paris conference. The initiative was quickly seconded by President Francois Mitterrand of France, one of the countries that had unwittingly supplied Iraq with equipment that helps in the manufacture of chemical weapons. The results of that exchange, understates a senior French diplomat, "gave one pause...