Word: held
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...very short history of independence. The last country to be liberated from the Spanish, in 1898, Cuba quickly found itself under the control of the United States. Until 1902, U.S. marines were stationed as advisors to Cuba. Until 1934, under the Platt Amendment, the U.S. State Department held official control over Cuban foreign and trade policy...
Following publicized reports of his sexual involvement with three female patients 15 years ago, a psychiatrist affiliated with the Medical School relinquished his license Monday, the day before the Massachusetts Board of Licensing in Medicine was to have held a final hearing to decide the future status of his license...
...troops are mired in the unending civil war in Lebanon, where 13 Western hostages are being held. Against his wishes, p.l.o. Chairman Yasser Arafat has recognized Israel's right to exist. The U.S. and Britain chastise him for harboring a Palestinian guerrilla group, some of whose members are leading suspects in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Yet Syria's wily President Hafez Assad appeared unruffled and even jovial last week, as he maneuvered through the region's perilous political landscape for three hours in a rare interview with TIME Assistant Managing Editors Karsten Prager and John F. Stacks...
...committed that action is on our territory, he will be held accountable, and he will be brought to judgment. If it is proved that this action comes from the leadership of the P.F.L.P.-G.C., then we will deal with this matter at that time. We must distinguish between an individual action and an official action. I find it extremely unlikely that the P.F.L.P.-G.C. can be behind this action, because this group more than any other concentrates its activities totally on the occupied territories...
Where the N.R.A. has always revealed its nature as a paranoid lobby, a political anachronism, is in its rigid ideological belief that any restriction on the private ownership of any kind of hand-held gun leads inexorably to total abolition of all gun ownership -- that, if today the U.S. Government takes the Kalashnikov from the hands of the maniac on the school playground, it will be coming for my Winchester pump tomorrow. There is no evidence for this absurd belief, but it remains an article of faith. And it does so because the faith is bad faith: the stand...