Word: mistakenness
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...then addressed the really tough issues. I told Begin that Sadat would never yield on leaving Israeli settlements anywhere in the Sinai. For him, complete sovereignty meant a total absence of Israeli dwellers. Begin did not respond, but it was my impression that he thought I was mistaken about this, that with other Israeli concessions, Sadat might change his mind...
...film's two plots--one dealing with Jules' obsession with the diva and the other, with the sleazy operations of something called the "Caribbean Connection"--revolve around the time-honored devices of mistaken identity and unwitting involvement in crime. When Jules illicitly tapes a Hawkins concert, he becomes the object of a sinister gang of Taiwanese sporting mirror-sunglasses who are trying to obtain pirated recordings of the famous singer. (For "artistic reasons," Hawkins has always refused to make records). And when a prostitute escaping from the "Caribbean Connection" (which seems to have something to do with white slavery...
...case of mistaken identity...
...improbabilities did not end there. It turned out that another man, William Jackson, 31, had been serving a sentence of 14 to 50 years for two of the rapes now attributed to Dr. Jackson. In an apparent case of mistaken identity, two rape victims had picked William Jackson out of a police lineup in 1977. The resemblance between the two men, who are not related, is indeed striking: both are tall, slender blacks with short Afros, sparse beards, mustaches and similar facial features...
William Jackson was released from prison 7½ hours after Edward Jackson was indicted. He holds no grudge against the mistaken witnesses - "It ain't their fault" - but he is bitter at the system of justice that put him behind bars. Ohio law provides no compensation for persons falsely convicted unless it can be shown that due process was not observed. Says William Jackson, who was stabbed and repeatedly assaulted during his imprisonment: "They took away part of my life, part of my youth. I spent five years down there, and all they said...