Word: helded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agency appointed a study group of 11 East Cambridge residents last February and held many neighborhood meetings, sometimes drawing audiences of more than 100, Gornstein said...
...says that the three laboratories reached a "remarkable agreement," all estimating dates within 100 years of one another. Averaging of the data produced a 95% probability that the shroud originated between 1260 and 1380 and near absolute certainty that it dates from no earlier than 1200. However, some Catholics held out the slim hope that there was a scientific oversight and the shroud might be redated someday...
...guards. Largely because of Castro's move, South Africa backed off and resumed peace talks. Now Castro insists that his troops leave on Cuban ships and planes, not Soviet ones. "Fidel put everything on the line," says a U.S. diplomat. "He's determined to leave Angola with his head held high...
...arrests were based on indictments handed up by federal grand juries in Tampa and other cities. The indictments named some 80 defendants and the first banking company ever charged in the U.S. with money laundering: the Luxembourg-based Bank of Credit and Commerce International, the seventh largest privately held financial institution in the world (assets: $20 billion). Under a tough 1986 U.S. law, bank officials who knowingly conceal the source of illicit money can be fined up to $500,000 or twice the amount of the money they launder, and imprisoned for up to 20 years...
After moving into the White House, Mrs. Reagan converted Amy Carter's bedroom into a spacious walk-in closet to house her extensive wardrobe, according to one former White House official. This source says the room, roughly 10 ft. by 15 ft., has held hundreds of dresses in built-in cabinets along all four walls. Each dress is labeled with the occasions on which it was worn, apparently so Mrs. Reagan can avoid displaying it again in front of the same audience...