Word: held
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Funeral services for Strauss were held yesterday at 1 p.m. at the Sisterhood Chapel at Temple Beth Zion in Buffalo, New York...
...company has a 2,600-strong force of part-time saleswomen, mostly middle-aged, who troop from door to door, hawking stocks and bonds. This corps was established 30 years ago, when the company sought to spur personal investment by distributing savings chests to Japanese households. The local saleswoman held the keys to savers' chests. Each month she came by to empty the chest and place the money in the customer's Nomura account. The company gave out more than 1 million chests before the gimmick was retired...
...Baghdad's admission, the attacks were mounted to capture enemy soldiers for use as bargaining chips in an eventual prisoner swap with Iran. Iraq claimed the raids netted 12,000 new captives, bringing its prisoner-of-war total to 35,000, still well short of the 50,000 Iraqis held in Iran...
...forge a new relationship with Iran after a hiatus of nearly a decade. Last week Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, speaker of Iran's parliament, raised that prospect and a good deal more: the possibility of securing Iran's help in gaining the release of nine American hostages believed held by pro-Iranian factions in Lebanon...
...tied his offer to a long-held Iranian goal: getting possession of assets, including $400 million worth of armaments, impounded by Washington when relations were severed in 1980. "Let them ((U.S. officials)) take a nonhostile pose by releasing our assets," said Rafsanjani. "If so, we will use our influence in Lebanon." Reagan Administration officials quickly ruled out the possibility of any deal that had the appearance of an Iran-contra- style ransom. Reagan nonetheless chose to view the comment optimistically, saying, "If they're willing and ready to talk, it's time...