Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loser, say China's leftists, is all too often idealism. Tolerance, they believe, is encouraging decadence; capitalist practices and perks, they suspect, are tempting Chinese citizens to abandon the Maoist values of struggle, self-sacrifice and subservience to party in favor of such Western vices as self-interest, elitism and cynical moral pragmatism. Last year a Shanghai newspaper printed what it took to be the inspiring story of Zhang Hua, a medical student who lost his life while trying to save a drowning peasant. More than 1,600 readers wrote to the paper, many of them indignant...
...field near his home. Holding that revenue officers could testify about the liquor, Holmes said that "the special protection accorded by the Fourth Amendment to the people in their 'persons, houses, papers and effects' is not extended to the open fields," even when the land is the suspect's own property. The Burger court, by a 6-to-3 vote, found that the same principle applied in two cases from Maine and Kentucky, though the crops of marijuana confiscated as evidence were in fenced-off areas posted with no-trespassing signs. In upholding the warrantless searches, Justice...
...prototype of tales of political folly, Tuchman says, is the story of the Seige of Troy. Why would the Trojans suspect nothing when their enemies for 10 years, the Greeks, withdrew suddenly in the middle of the night and left a huge wooden horse behind them? The Trojans neglected even to examine the horse before tearing down the gates of their city to bring it inside...
...other crimes for which Wilder is a suspect follow a similar chilling pattern. According to a statement by the FBI, "In each known incident, an individual meeting Wilder's physical description approaches an attractive young female, identifies himself as a professional photographer and offers the woman a photo session for usage in nationwide magazines. If any resistance or refusal is given, he forcibly abducts the victim...
...Grand Junction, Colo., shopping mall on March 29. Three days later, in Las Vegas,, Michele Korfman, 17, disappeared from a shopping mall where she had been appearing in a beauty contest. Three other women have told police they were approached at that mall by a man who police suspect was Wilder, but successfully rebuffed his advances...