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Word: unknowns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remembers. There is no evidence that Kitagawa violated any laws, but the rules allowed him to purchase ivory that had been confiscated or whose origins in Africa were lost in the myriad transactions between that continent and Japan. Under "country of origin," some of the export permits say only "unknown" or are blank. Kitagawa bought 13 tons in Singapore last year and twelve tons from Burundi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elephants: Trail of Shame | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...unknown how many police were deployed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 70,000 East Germans Rally for Democracy | 10/10/1989 | See Source »

...anyone who takes on a special-needs kid. "You've got to be optimistic without denying what is happening," she says. "You've got to focus on strengths, keep perspective, set reasonable goals and get help when you need it. You have to be able to tolerate the unknown. You have to be able to say, 'I will love this child forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adoption: Nobody's Children | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

Between 11:50 p.m. Sunday and 5:30 a.m. Monday, an "unknown person" broke into Nini's newsstand, at Mass. Ave. and Brattle St., then moved next door to the Greenhouse Coffee Shop, according to the Cambridge police journal...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Two More Robberies Hit Harvard Square | 10/5/1989 | See Source »

...against France for reneging on an alleged 1988 deal to trade a jailed Arab terrorist for the release of three French hostages held in Lebanon. The French government denies making any deal to free the hostages beyond agreeing to restore diplomatic relations with Iran. At week's end an unknown group calling itself the Secret Chadian Resistance claimed responsibility, as part of a campaign to rid Africa of "all military colonial forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Niger Death over the Desert | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

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