Word: rican
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Durkin later testified that he believed the two men were members of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), a Puerto Rican leftist group. He also said he "had no choice" but to shoot because Morales moved as if reaching for a gun (neither man was armed, nor did they have anything to do with the FALN.) Psychiatrist Daniel W. Schwartz, whose "rare epilepsy" testimony had convinced a jury in a similar case in 1976 (see above), argued that Durkin had temporarily gone insane. The jury found Durkin not guilty, but passed over the insanity issue and decided the officer...
...what he was--a 15-year-old asking a question. When Ja-Wan McGee reached for his cigarette lighter, he had no way of knowing a nearby cop would "see" a holdup. Patrolman Kevin Durkin slipped into a waking nightmare, and two men suddenly found themselves cast as Puerto Rican terrorists...
...public relations effort left many other Nicaraguan exiles unconvinced that the organization had changed. From his hilltop home overlooking the Costa Rican capital of San José, Pastora told TIME Reporter Timothy Loughran he still considered the F.D.N. bases in Honduras to be run by Somocistas, the name given the national guardsmen. Said Pastora: "It is a guard which until a short while ago was murdering us, and once it returns to Nicaragua, it will kill our young people, farmers and students...
Gonzales will be "tied down" with general admission business instead of concentrating on specific recruiting duties. Caucus Co-Chairman Paul Godley said. Godley praised the appointment of Gonzales, a Puerto Rican, to the post, but added that "his assigned duties indicate that he will not replace Sellers' function and this does not address the need for a separate minority recruiter...
...residents tell it, something had. Though a devoted father, the elder Jahnke was described by those who knew him as an ultrastrict disciplinarian with an explosive temper that often boiled over into physical violence. He doled out severe beatings to his children for the most minor infractions; his Puerto Rican-born wife Maria stood by helplessly during her husband's fist-wielding tirades and sometimes suffered violence herself. Said a friend of the family's after the killing: "What those children did ... it made terrible sense...