Word: client
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Reagan's other prescription for gaining respect abroad is for the U.S. to defend its friends, such as the client regimes it lost in Iran and Nicaragua, against Communist subversion and aggression. While Carter has been deservedly criticized for seeming confounded and even paralyzed by the challenge of radical change in the Third World, at least he has recognized that indigenous social and economic forces, rather than Soviet agents, brought down the Shah and Somoza. Reagan's tendency to see the sinister hand of Moscow behind every upheaval and to label militant nationalists as Communists strongly suggests that...
...ensure internal peace. Though the takeover reportedly surprised Nyerere, he instructed his troops not to oppose the Ugandan army, but only to protect Binaisa from execution. Kenya, meanwhile, remains apprehensive about Nyerere's motives; Nairobi has long feared that the Tanzanian leader plans to turn Uganda into a client state permanently...
...Joseph Oteri, will use footage from The Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now to try to convince a federal jury that even if Tindall did smuggle drugs into the U.S. nearly six years ago, as the Government contends, he should not be held responsible. The reason: the war turned his client into an "action junkie" unable to resist opportunities to enjoy thrills...
...While not all authorities believe PTSD is very different from the shell shock or combat fatigue suffered by soldiers in earlier wars, those who do cite the uniqueness of Viet Nam. Says Jeffrey Steinberg, a Santa Rosa, Calif., lawyer who parlayed a PTSD defense into an acquittal for a client accused of assault: "The vets were viewed by the public as baby killers, as a bunch of losers. They found difficulty in justifying themselves...
...PTSD claim has been used only in cases involving violence. But in Tindall's drug-smuggling trial, Lawyer Oteri will try to stretch this defense much further. He contends that his client, now a charter airline pilot whose avocations include diving off cliffs and exploring underwater caves, has continually sought out thrills since his Viet Nam days. If juries buy the PTSD defense in this and other cases, prosecutors worry, many veterans will conclude that they can commit crime with impunity...