Word: mistakenness
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...suspected act of violence by Black September terrorists within the U.S. took place in Washington, D.C., last week. A shot was fired into a bedroom of the home of the New Zealand chargé d'affaires. Luckily, no one was hurt. Apparently it was a ludicrous case of mistaken identity: the attackers were after the Jordanian ambassador-who had moved away two years earlier. "The terrorists may have been using a very old diplomatic directory," said the understandably nervous New Zealand charge, Gerald Hensley, adding: "It is most unlikely that the shot was intended for us. We have...
...idea of a split is mistaken," one of the White House sources said yesterday. "That breakdown may have worked for the four or five names mentioned in The Post, but nowhere else...
...mortified to be a member of that white race, lest I be mistaken for the ignorant, vicious, crooked angry white that unfortunately is in the majority in the country...
...defendant in court. In only two cases did the previous identification hold up. "Asking for a fair and accurate system of identification is often connected with some kind of bleeding-heart thing," says Robert Kasanof of New York's Legal Aid Society. "But if the identification is mistaken, that means the real criminal is still loose. I would think the police would care. I would think the people would care." Adds Schrager, who will eventually get back to his job of prosecuting: "I've learned something about eyewitness identifications...
...Jordanian Chargé d'Affaires Adly al Nasser. The choices did not make complete sense. Though the U.S. and Jordan have strongly opposed the Palestinian guerrilla movement, Saudi Arabia has been ambivalent, giving financial support to both Jordan and the terrorists. As for Eid, it seemed he was mistaken by his captors for a Jew; in fact, his forebears were Egyptian. One diplomat unsuccessfully sought by the commandos was the West German ambassador, who missed the party at the last minute because of another engagement...