Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also said that, on Jan. 29, he rejected a U.S. proposal to deal with Israel in cooperation with Palestinians not connected with the PLO. "Our unwavering position was no separate settlement," the king said...
...temperature on the morning of the Jan. 28 launch has been a focus of a presidential commission's investigation into the shuttle accident because of concern that the cold might have affected the performance of critical O-ring seals between segments of the shuttle's two rocket boosters...
...than 95,000 New York State tax dodgers, including doctors, lawyers, scientists and schoolteachers, have come out of hiding since Nov. 1, when the state started an amnesty program in which people could pay overdue taxes voluntarily without suffering penalties or being subject to prosecution. The grace period ended Jan. 31, and the state announced last week that it had raked in $245 million. That was more than any of 17 other states, from California to Massachusetts, has collected through similar programs in recent years. Elated New York officials suggested that a national amnesty campaign might help cut the federal...
Jean-Claude had no stomach for an all-out campaign of repressive violence to bring the country under control. U.S. officials say he intended to leave Haiti early on the morning of Jan. 31 and even got as far as the airport. The report sparked rumors that he had fled the country and led White House Spokesman Larry Speakes to announce, erroneously, that the Duvaliers had departed. Differing accounts suggest that the President either changed his mind and returned to the palace, or was intercepted by the army...
...year papacy. India's Catholic population accounts for only 12 million, or just 1.7%, of the country's 746 million people. Moreover, in recent weeks conservative Hindus had been warning that the Pope planned to use his trip to convert 200,000 Hindus to Christianity. The agitation peaked on Jan. 12, when 22 Hindu organizations rallied 50,000 demonstrators in Trivandrum, India's southernmost city. Last week's protest activities were kept tightly in check by police...