Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guilty verdict has been a foregone conclusion since March 1977, when the government newspaper Izvestiya?just before Shcharansky's arrest?accused him of spying for the CIA. According to Shcharansky's brother Leonid, who was admitted to the courtroom, the defendant's first action was to dismiss the lawyer who had been assigned to him by the KGB in place of the attorney he had requested and been denied. Conducting his own defense, Shcharansky made a one-hour opening statement to the presiding judge and two lay assessors who constituted a jury. During the five-day trial, his brother later...
...both sides agree on the villains' identity: bungling federal bureaucracies whose errors and capriciousness have kept key issues from being resolved. Says Carl Goldstein, a spokesman for the pro-plant Atomic Industrial Forum: "It is horrendous what Seabrook shows about the regulatory process." Agrees Tony Roisman, an opposing lawyer: "You can't regulate this...
...little whorehouse in Texas," and celebrated under that title in a current Broadway musical hit, the Chicken Ranch did a brisk business until a Houston television station broadcast an "exposé" about it five years ago. That shamed the state authorities into shutting it down. Last September a shrewd lawyer moved the Chicken Ranch, virtually intact, to Dallas, where it became a sort of disco restaurant serving Spanish chicken, Mexican chicken, Swiss chicken and so on. Unfortunately for him, the Chicken Ranch's customers were not really interested in those dishes, and four months later the place closed down...
Civil liberties advocates were particularly pleased by the requirement that officials balance the public interest with the needs of national security when considering a request for the release of classified information. The effect of this provision will be to make appeals easier. Said American Civil Liberties Union Lawyer Mark Lynch: "This section is going to revolutionize litigation in the freedom-of-information field...
Hurley had made his mark as a politician in the Republican convention of 1928 in Houston, where he was one of the floor managers corralling delegates for Herbert Hoover. An Oklahoma corporation lawyer, he got his piece of the traditional share-out of office after a Presidential victory, being named Secretary of War in 1928. Later Franklin Roosevelt, making the war a bipartisan effort, sent Hurley, now accoutered as a major general, to negotiate with Chiang K'ai-shek for both the creation of a coalition government between Communists and Nationalists...