Word: freed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brain-degenerating Alzheimer's disease. Wagner was Kraai's friend as well as his patient. Monroe County Sheriff Andrew P. Meloni said that the doctor was "overwhelmed with emotion at (Wagner's) deteriorating condition." After Kraai was heard to speak of suicide, he was held overnight in jail, then freed on bail following psychiatric observation...
...another putative mercy-killing case, the independently elected Florida cabinet refused 4, to 2, to approve Governor Bob Graham's recommendation that Roswell Gilbert, 76, be freed while he appeals his life sentence for killing his ailing 73-year-old wife last March. Gilbert, said Florida Comptroller Gerald Lewis, "took an action I don't believe society can condone. The law does not give one person the right to kill another because of illness...
...captivity, the hostages had been restrained in their comments to the ubiquitous TV cameras about their feelings toward the Amal militiamen holding them. Once freed, however, many of them began to vent their anger and bitterness, as well as resentment that their captors had been depicted as anything other than brutish fanatics. Some of the hostages distinguished between the original gunmen who hijacked the plane, thought to be from the fanatic Shi'ite Hizballah (Party of God), and the Amal militiamen who took control after the first two days. "Once the Amal came aboard, things seemed to settle down some...
...being criticized for his apparently pro-Shi'ite remarks. He noted reports that the White House had preferred that he not speak at Andrews base and that the President's men were relieved when Captain Testrake was asked to become the new spokesman. Once the hostages were freed, Conwell agreed, it made sense to have the captain act as spokesman...
...freed hostages -- ordinary men caught in extraordinary circumstances -- it was the commonplace aspects of daily life that really brought home their sense of freedom. Barczak, through tears, told reporters, "For me, freedom is just being able to do the everyday, ordinary things that you can do in America." Benjamin Zimmermann, the flight engineer aboard the hijacked TWA airliner, simply wanted to be alone with a few friends and relatives. When he arrived in his hometown of Cascade, Idaho, he told a welcoming crowd of more than 1,000, "TWA Flight 847 has finally landed...