Word: case
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...band and CBS reject the idea of settling out of court, contending that free expression is at stake. Says their attorney, Suellen Fulstone: "The subliminal argument has no basis in fact. It is simply a vehicle to pursue a case otherwise marred by the First Amendment...
...dioxin. The recommendation, which could have set off a costly chain of regulatory actions, was deleted from the final draft after review by the White House Office of Policy Development. "The EPA thing is a stunner," says Paul Brodeur, a writer for the New Yorker. "It's a clear case of suppression and politicization of a major health issue by the White House...
...according to Scott Turow is pretty much as we imagine it in our worst-case scenarios, which are, of course, essentially indistinguishable from our paranoid nightmares. The itchy authenticity with which he showed how even an expert in the legal system can be caught up in one of its patented narratives of false accusation made his novel Presumed Innocent a best seller...
Washington's decision to open a dialogue with Vietnam about Cambodia suggests that the U.S. may finally be ready to jettison the psychological baggage that has so burdened attitudes toward Hanoi and contorted the policies of the Carter, Reagan and Bush administrations in Southeast Asia. But a case can be made that it doesn't go far enough because it fails to address the critical question of relations with Vietnam itself...
...least, there is a humanitarian case for renewing relations. Direct talks about refugees, who are still streaming out of Vietnam, could only help. More than 10,000 Amerasians fathered by American G.I.s and ostracized in Vietnam might find life easier...