Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Council hopeful Rena Leib says that she believes the Rainbow's grass-roots approach may be better able to push for affordable housing and other benefits for the city's disenfranchised, issues which have in the past caused dissension among the CCA ranks...
...past 17 months, Israel has virtually shut down West Bank classrooms, from kindergartens to universities. Now the government may allow some schools to be reopened...
...nation's worst unsolved serial-murder case, a seven-year manhunt has finally produced a suspect: a 38-year-old former law student with a mysterious past...
Sixty tons of firewood and 140 gal. of gasoline were needed to get the great bonfire going. Nothing less would reduce to ashes the 2,400 elephant tusks -- twelve tons of nonflammable ivory in all -- that Kenyan wildlife officials had confiscated from poachers in the past four years...
President Daniel arap Moi ignited the 20-ft. tower of ivory, which had been erected in a clearing overlooking the Athi Plains in Nairobi's game park. The pyre was a memorial to the hundreds of thousands of elephants slaughtered in Africa by poachers over the past ten years, and a symbol of Kenya's avowed resolve to end poaching and the global ivory trade that threatens the elephant with extinction. In just the past decade the population of Kenya's herd has plummeted from 65,000 to about 17,000. Had Kenya sold the store of tusks, many hacked...