Word: forts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wechsler saved the details of his flight for a forthcoming book on the subject, but he said in a phone interview from Berlin that he left Bavaria because he became "panic stricken and frightened" at the prospect of being sent to Fort Leavenworth, a notorious military prison...
...courts refused to admit those two arguments, but attorney Bill Lane had better luck with a legal strategy called urban survival syndrome. His client, Daimion Osby, 18, of Fort Worth, Texas, was accosted last year by two men who in the past had threatened him over a gambling debt. Osby pulled out a .38- cal. pistol and shot the unarmed men to death. The case ended last month in a mistrial. Though 11 of the 12 jurors voted for conviction, the foreman opted for acquittal. He agreed with the argument that Osby shot Willie Brooks, 28, and Marcus Brooks...
...African-American critics say the urban-survival defense harks back to a time when blacks were seen as an indistinguishable whole: volatile, angry and presumed guilty. "((The Osby mistrial)) says 'these folks' can't help shooting each other," says the Rev. Ralph Waldo Emerson, a Fort Worth minister. "And it says to already nervous law-enforcement officials that they'd better be ready to draw when they stop someone in our community...
...inherent lack of autonomy in a military job also sets the stage for abuse. "It's all about control," says Cindy Zamora, the wife of an Army tanker. She now lives in a shelter for battered women in Killeen, Texas, just outside huge Fort Hood. She moved there after her husband bit her, beat her and threatened her with a knife. "There's a lot of women in here married to soldiers whose sergeants protect them if they're good soldiers," she says. "They can't control their superiors on the job, so they control us." Although her husband admitted...
Despite the Pentagon's intentions, its sometimes haphazard efforts offer little comfort to victims and their families. Jeromy Willis, for example, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and is now serving time at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Yet Marie Willis' family remains bitter, because the military ignored so many warnings that a tragedy was afoot. Her family says Jeromy was confined to base twice because he tried to kill Marie, but he was allowed to roam freely on the base when the Air Force invited and paid for her to return there and testify against...