Word: commited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five men spoke, the defendant sat erect, pale but composed and dry-eyed, while her lawyers leaned toward her protectively. Last week, after only twelve hours of deliberation, a San Francisco jury ruled that Patricia Campbell Hearst was guilty of armed bank robbery and of using a firearm to commit a felony...
Then Patty Hearst was led out of the courtroom to wait while the jurors began to discuss and debate her claim that she had been compelled to commit the crime. It did not take the jury long to decide that Patty, alias Tania, was not telling the truth...
...holiest site. It is also the site of Al Aqsa mosque, revered by Moslems as the third most sacred spot in Islam, after Mecca and Medina. Previously, Israel's Chief Rabbinate had forbidden Orthodox Jews even to set foot on the Temple Mount, lest they accidentally commit sacrilege by stepping into the ancient temple's lost Holy of Holies, where only the high priest could enter. But some militant Orthodox Jews chose to challenge the Moslems' monopoly of the mount by praying there, thus triggering the court decision...
...grim and steely. "If I am bitter, then I have a right to be bitter," said the former boxer. "What you're seeing is a man who has been without his wife and daughter for 9½ years for crimes he did not, would not and could not commit...
Huntington termed the present an "Age of Exposure." "The biggest crime a political figure can commit is the cover-up," he added, speaking of the role the press played in the Watergate investigation...