4.1 True Crime, sanasto (osa 1) [15 p.]

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1. NELSON MANDELA
fought against apartheid as the leader of the African National Congress (ANC). He was first arrested in 1956 on treason charges, but ?(ACQUITTED).
In 1960, 69 protesters were killed when the police opened fire on a crowd demonstrating against pass laws which ?(REQUIRED) black African citizens to carry pass books outside ? (DESIGNATED) areas.

Mandela no longer believed that non-violent measures would be enough to ?(OVERTHROW) the government. He formed a militant wing of the ANC, ? (LAUNCHING) bomb attacks on government targets. In 1962 he was sentenced to five years in prison for ? (INCITING) a workers' strike.

Verdict and Sentence:
Mandela admitted to many of the charges and defended his use of violence by saying it was (INEVITABLE) ?. In 1964 Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island where he spent 27 years before being released.


2. JOHN ORR
wanted to be a police officer, but didn't (MAKE THE CUT). Instead he became a ? (DEDICATED) arson investigator who was often the first one on the scene. Little did anyone suspect that he was actually the one lighting the blazes. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, he set thousands of fires in Los Angeles that cost millions of dollars in property damages and claimed four innocent lives.

Verdict and Sentence:
Orr was found guilty and convicted for serial arson and four murders. Orr was sentenced to life plus 20 years in a maximum security prison.

3. BRANDON LEE,
a martial artist and an actor, was fatally shot during the filming of The Crow in 1993. The Magnum .44 pointed at Lee had been filled with blanks that had ? (HASTILY) been ?(FABRICATED) by taking out the gunpowder from real bullets. Somehow one of these lead dummies had become ? (LODGED) down the barrel and no one had bothered to clean the gun. When the cameras started rolling, Michael Massee (an actor playing a thug) fired the gun ? (POINT BLANK) at Lee. The seriously injured actor dragged himself along the floor as the script ? (DICTATED) until he collapsed.

Verdict and Sentence:
The shooting was ruled accidental. Michael Massee was ? (DEEMED) not responsible for Brandon Lee's death and no criminal charges were ever brought against him.

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