Word: withdrawn
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...shared a joint bank account at the branch of the National Westminster Bank located near Al-Salam Mosque, where investigators say the men placed several deposits of less than $10,000. Federal agents say at least $8,000 was transferred to the account from Germany last year and was withdrawn by Salameh. One bank employee said, "We are talking about small amounts -- well under anything that would raise any kind of suspicion." Precht insists that the total account never exceeded $10,000 and was closed shortly before Ayyad's marriage last December...
...wife filed for divorce, charging in court documents that her husband was "verbally and emotionally abusive to both our minor daughters and myself." A year later the suit was withdrawn, and the couple reconciled. For a time the Griffins kept their children out of school and educated them at home, although both enrolled in a private academy last September. Griffin had no known private or public involvement with Pensacola's strident antiabortion factions until a month or so before he murdered Gunn...
...favorite of headline writers and Hollywood producers, reinforces an inaccurate link between mental illness and violence. According to recent studies, slightly more than 11% of the mentally ill are prone to violence, roughly the same percentage as in the general population. In reality, most mentally ill patients are withdrawn, frightened and passive. For 25 years, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication tracked television portrayals of the mentally ill in prime time: more than 72% of the characters were portrayed as violent...
Hopefully, these so called scandals will be no more damaging than youthful marijuana smoking. After Douglas Ginsberg's nomination to the Supreme Court was withdrawn because he had smoked pot years earlier, a host of public figures admitted to one-time marijuana experimentation. Senator Al Gore '69 was among them, and his ascendancy to the vice presidency (as well as non-inhaler Clinton's election) is proof that the scandal has lost its potency...
...country. Last July three U.N. military observers were based in the village of Kraya, where the Khmer Rouge were infiltrating men and supplies down from Thailand. The local Khmer Rouge commander, General Men Ron, told the observers to "get out or I will kill you." The three men were withdrawn and did not return to Kraya until the end of September. Since then, Men Ron has refused to discuss any problems with them, always answering, "There are Vietnamese in the country. I will not deal with UNTAC." The Khmer Rouge have detained UNTAC observers on three occasions...