Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's best-known lawyers. The Democrats have hired Criminal Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams to speed their civil suit for $1,000,000 in damages against the Re-Election Committee. The suspects, including James W. Mc-Cord Jr., the Committee's chief security coordinator, are being individually defended by F. Lee Bailey and other legal stars. Attorney Caddy has hired no fewer than four lawyers to defend him against the contempt charges...
JAPAN'S INFLUENCE: Japan is now the world's third biggest economic power, but its "self-defense forces" are modest (259,000 men). Will Japan opt to increase them? "As far as Japan is concerned, militarily it has only enough forces to defend itself." On the other hand, "Japan is ready to cooperate in sharing the burden the U.S. has been carrying in the economic area. That is why we were able to reach agreement on a monetary settlement in Washington at the end of last year. We committed ourselves to raise government development aid [to underdeveloped countries...
...Beaten Generation" [June 12]. The most ridiculous aspect of corporal punishment is the way adults, in their usual presumptuous attitude toward child raising, actually think they are accomplishing something. The adult merely settles a temporary difficulty by exploiting the child's physical inability to defend himself. If kids deserve any sort of physical treatment in schools, then it is a pat on the back for withstanding the torture of classroom discipline, physical...
...Vladimir Bukovsky was sentenced to twelve years imprisonment, forced labor and exile under Article 70 of the Russian Republic's criminal code ("defaming the Soviet political and social system"), the same law under which Yakir is being held. Yakir protested Bukovsky's arrest and presumably will now defend himself by arguing that the authorities themselves are violating the Soviet constitution when they suppress dissent...
...VONNEGUT actually makes clear is that technology has brought us to the point where you can say nothing analytically sensible about massacre. With a lot of no-crap Yankee charm, he also attacks all who would defend the Dresden bombing, from academic historians who age into monsters to breakass generals and Allied patriots. But Billy learns on Traifamadore only that life has good moments and bad ones, and war is a bad moment that should not be concentrated long...