Word: wanness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wan McGee. 17, was crippled by an officer in a pizza parlor when he reached into his pocket for a cigarette lighter. The officer later said he had fired because he thought McGee was taking out a gun to hold up the parlor. City Attorney William A. Swisher refused to prosecute the policeman because, in his view, there had been "no criminal intent." Demonstrations followed the decision...
When Officer Torsney shot Randy Evans point-blank, he cannot possibly have seen Evans for 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...
...strange and unexpectedly short trial-the first of four that Wilson faces on charges that he masterminded an international web of illegal arms deals and terrorist activities between 1976 and 1979. Wan and slimmer after five months in federal custody, Wilson did not take the stand in his own defense, and maintained a dour demeanor during the 2½-day trial. A CIA agent from 1954 to 1970 who then worked in a Navy intelligence group before retiring in 1976, Wilson seemed to sense that his luck had run out. For nearly two years after his first indictment...
...Roman Catholic pontiff said his meeting with Felipe Gonzalez, whose Specialist Party wan last week's general election by a landslide, should "remove any doubts--if chief ever were any--about my respect for the country's freely elected leaders...
...Premier Wan Li said that the Soviets "have shown themselves to be deaf to our conditions for a dialogue...