Word: mistakenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marine Corporal Clemente Banuelos, 22, aimed his M-16 rifle at an 18-year-old goatherd named Esequiel Hernandez Jr. and shot him to death. Banuelos was part of a military surveillance unit helping control drug traffic in the tiny West Texas border town of Redford. He had apparently mistaken Hernandez--who was carrying a rifle and had fired it in the direction of the Marines--for one of the armed scouts who typically act as advance guards for drug smugglers...
...supplier. Not a housewife among them. Minivans are practical vehicles that can haul other things besides runny-nosed kids, flea-bitten dogs and henpecked husbands. Sport-utes can't match them for practicality and cargo or passenger space, the price is right and, frankly, a minivan will never be mistaken for the extension of macho man that a Hummer or Range Rover surely is. PAULA WESSON Stowe...
...scrawny, which is why, after taking a first bite--perhaps because a human, especially one wearing a black wet suit and flippers, looks something like a seal--a great white will usually turn up its nose at whatever remains. Most other shark attacks are probably also cases of mistaken identity: a swimmer's flapping feet and hands may look like the movements of a fish darting through the water...
...culprit, and it's looking more and more like the pilot. Though the feds have tons of debris and data to scour before an official judgement, NBC reports early examinations of the plane's "black boxes" (in-flight data and cockpit voice recorders) show the pilot had mistaken a hilltop landing beacon three miles from the airport for the airport itself, and that he had approached that site as if to make a landing...
...G.O.P. Misinformed, mistaken and misanthropic. Relief bill was a layup, and they muffed...