Word: proof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Deeply embarrassed, the hospital ordered several blood tests. But by the time the results were in, confirming that two of the three babies were still in the wrong arms, mothers and babies had already been home for six weeks. The women demanded more conclusive proof. So out went a call to Dr. Chaim Brautbar, a specialist in immunogenetics. He promptly began tissue-typing all the principals: babies, parents and grandparents. In such tests, scientists search the blood for small snatches of cellular material and compare it in order to establish genetic links between individuals...
Pinochet insisted that the charges were only "presumptions and not proof," leading State Department officials to believe that he has no intention of turning over the trio. Nonetheless, some State Department specialists still hoped that Chileans' outrage over the indictment might compel Pinochet to cooperate. Said one U.S. official: "The possibility that a death squad was sent to the United States with the knowing consent of Pinochet is something that is bound to stir up most Chileans." But they lack most political and press freedoms, and Pinochet has weathered serious political storms in the past. When reporters in Santiago...
...parochial-school uniform. Nothing much mattered except that every student of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs School was dutifully lined along Queens Boulevard in New York to cheer Pope Paul VI on his triumphal tour of the city, and that in that brief instant before the bullet-proof Lincoln whizzed him past us to Manhattan, he had waved to us. The moment captured everyone--the beaming nuns, the camera-toting parents, the stern parish priests allowing themselves to smile just once, and even the usually rowdy crew of sniffling little kids that we were. We cheered as we never...
...Jews to the Americas, and of a ministry by Jesus in the New World. These Jews built elaborate civilizations before many were wiped out around A.D. 400 in a civil war at Hill Cumorah, won by ancestors of the American Indians. The trouble is there is no accepted archaeological proof of the book's claims, and the church shows no interest in excavating Hill Cumorah, where there should be vast numbers of skeletons. The effort of anti-Mormons to impugn the book through handwriting experts, on the theory that it was stolen from the manuscript of an old novel, fizzled...
Steptoe revealed that the birth had been filmed; the pictures may prove an important point. Some doctors had observed that if Lesley's fallopian tubes were intact, Steptoe would not have irrefutable proof that Louise was conceived in a test tube. But, Steptoe said with evident satisfaction, "I was able to show that the tubes were absent." Lesley, he explained, had had an operation in 1970 to clear her blocked tubes?but with no success. After she was referred to Steptoe in 1976, he did an exploratory operation and found "there were mere remnants of her tubes." Because these remnants...