Word: grave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some of its holdings. Perhaps most troubling of all, the U.M.W. is in a state of near anarchy, having overwhelmingly rejected its leadership's call to ratify the proposed contract. Says one veteran union staffer: "We've never had a precedent of this kind. There is very grave danger...
...skull was stolen from Swedenborg's London grave, 44 years after his 1772 burial, by a retired sea captain infatuated with phrenology. It was bought a century later at an antique shop in Swansea, Wales, by the family whose heirs sold it off last week. Swedenborgians protested the sale of stolen property, but are relieved that the skull is returning to Sweden, where the rest of the founder's body now lies...
...days before the auction, the remains of a much more famous man of God, St. Francis, were reburied after a special rite at the basilica in Assisi, Italy. The skeleton was first identified by Vatican experts in 1818. When the remains were exhumed so the grave site could be repaired, Pope Paul asked scientists to study them. Their findings: the saint, who died in 1226, was short and frail and Ms bones "very porous, denoting a form of malnutrition...
This represents a serious hardening of Israel's position. If the feisty Premier sticks to his guns, it will be a grave setback to the peace process. President Carter said as much when he observed at his press conference that the "abandonment" of 242 "would put us back many months, or years," since that ingeniously ambiguous resolution has been the framework for all Middle East peace negotiations during the past decade. Begin's new stand would make it almost impossible for the completion of a declaration of principles that Israel and Egypt could sign; it would almost rule...
About all the grave robbers could be charged with, unless they demanded ransom, was "interfering with the peace of the deceased" (maximum penalty: three years...