Word: witnesse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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-- Argentina is about to witness the first transition of power from one popularly elected President to another since 1922, though, by electing a Peronist, the Argentines have proved once again that democracy is a people's license to act stupidly.
Ruby, who died of cancer more than three years after shooting Oswald, left two disputed wills: one names Mayer executor of his estate. According to Jack's brother Earl Ruby, another will, written in the hospital but unsigned because Ruby died ten minutes before the witness arrived, leaves the weapon...
"The students have struck an ancient chord in Chinese history," explains Thomas Bernstein, a China scholar and chairman of Columbia University's political science department. "It is the idea of the scholar-official who remonstrates with the emperor about some evil in the kingdom that the ruler should put right...
Horror stories regularly fill court dockets. In a New York federal court, a translated undercover wire quotes a Cuban defendant: "I don't even have the ten kilos." The defendant means kilos of currency (Cuban cents), but the translated statement suggests kilograms of drugs. In a New Jersey homicide trial...
"[McQuilken's] a primary witness because he was right there," Williams said. "He saw everything that happenned."