Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mistake can be fatal; it is legal for a cop to use all necessary force, even to kill a fleeing felon; but his power to use force is much more limited in the case of a fleeing misdemeanant. There comes a point when the arrester may be subject to murder charges-and when the arrestee is entitled to shoot back in self-defense...
...York, the State Supreme Court's Appellate Division reversed a murder conviction and ordered a new trial because a man had not been allowed to see his family before confessing to the police. Richard Taylor, 25, had no lawyer when police questioned him in the fatal shooting of a Harlem bill collector. Taylor said that police also denied his request to see his relatives. Found guilty and sentenced to life, Taylor appealed. Even if a suspect does not "rationalize his reasons for asking for his family," ruled the court, "we must assume that he makes such request to obtain...
...Institute in Essen, Germany, brought the two together. He was seeking an explanation of the fact that many women who have had surgery for cancer of the breast get along well for years on regular doses of the male hormone testosterone, while others on the same treatment soon suffer fatal recurrences of their cancer. Current theories to explain this phenomenon did not satisfy Dr. Hienz, or Dr. P. N. Ehlers of Heidelberg...
...sheriff in Massachusetts. The reason for the sheriffs' concern is clear: the awarding of supply contracts, together with the patronage in the non-civil service county houses of correction, is of enormous importance. In state where sheriffs exercise great power over the county political organizations, angering a sheriff is fatal...
...PIDE interrogation center in Lourenco Marques, Siguake was forced to watch the fatal beating of a friend, then to carry the friend's bloody body in a sack out for burial. Because he was known outside the country, the police were afraid to kill him, but they stood him facing a wall for six days of questions until he collapsed in pain and was hospitalized for a month...