Word: barred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scarcely anyone who was involved in the operations-bugging phones, breaking into houses, slipping LSD to unsuspecting bar patrons, planning assassination attempts, undermining governments-seems to have wondered whether he was doing anything wrong. The values of the men who operated in the shadowy underground world were summed up by William C. Sullivan, for ten years the head of the FBI's domestic intelligence division: "Never once did I hear anybody, including myself, raise the question: 'Is this course of action ... lawful, is it legal, is it ethical or moral?' We never gave any thought to this...
...Market. The bar's traditional ban on contingent fees for witnesses rests on the fear that they would hype their testimony-or worse-to increase the likelihood of victory and thus of getting paid. But Judge Dooling thinks the danger of distorted testimony is not significantly greater than in cases in which a witness is paid a straight fee for his presumably favorable expertise. As for the remarkable idea of selling shares in the ultimate damages, if any, the judge said that the law did not appear to prevent Person's plaintiffs from selling such shares, so long...
Person had already become something of a bar rattler as one of a handful of attorneys who pressed legal claims that helped force the American Bar Association to reconsider its ban on lawyer advertising. Now, armed with the Dooling ruling, Person has asked the New York City bar about the ethics of his share sale, and is talking about a whole new stock market for lawsuits...
Died. Michael Greer, 60, fashionable interior decorator (for Ethel Merman, Mary Martin, Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper); of strangulation; in Manhattan. At week's end police were searching Manhattan's gay community for clues to his murderer. Greer, an admitted homosexual, was reportedly seen at a gay leather bar hours before his death...
...chairman of the ASCR, justifies the committee's recommendation that IBM not be required to disclose its sales in South Africa because he says the company has a good record of employing blacks there. But because of the apartheid laws, blacks can only be employed beneath a "colour bar"; they may not work above certain levels in industry. This allows the white minority to keep blacks out of positions of authority from which they could perhaps seek to change the apartheid system...