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...Capitol. On the same day, in San Francisco, 125,000 demonstrators formed a six-mile parade down Geary Boulevard into Golden Gate Park; they were led by Bob Silva, a 21-year-old Viet Nam veteran, with medals dangling from his sports shirt, who rode in a wheelchair...
...steps of the Supreme Court building; the charges were soon dropped. Two demonstrators were spared arrest on orders from Washington Police Chief Jerry Wilson, who was on hand. Bill Wyman, 20, who lost both legs when he stepped on a land mine last August, complained from his wheelchair: "I want to go with my brothers. If you are going to take them, take me." Jim Dehlin, another double amputee, likewise went free. "I just won't do it," Wilson said. "I just won't arrest...
...Congressman agreed and the veterans rushed quickly on down the hall, stopping once to rip off a wall-poster directory of Congressional offices for reference, once to fill canteens in the members-only men's room, and once to help Maxie run his wheelchair down the basement stair ramps...
Antonio Coco, a wealthy Spanish industrialist, is in a car accident that leaves him paralvzed and amnesiac. While he sits immobile in a wheelchair, prey to guilt-ridden hallucinations, his estate and manufacturing company fall into hopeless disarray. Decisions are left unmade, allowances stop, family discipline falls apart and, worse, a Swiss bank account number is lost. The process of the film becomes an attempt on the part of his family, mistress, and attendants, to shock Antonio back into health by acting out various psychological traumas of his past (a punishment in which he is locked in his room with...
...outrageous killing occurred early this year. Adolfo Mijangos López, 43, a Sorbonne-educated law professor and leader of a five-man opposition bloc in congress, had told a friend not long before: "I know they're after me, but I have one little insurance policy -my wheelchair. They might hesitate before shooting a man in a wheelchair." In mid-January, Mijangos, who was paralyzed from the waist down, was shot in the back 27 times as he was leaving his office building-in his wheelchair. His law students tore to shreds a floral wreath sent...