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...even spell his name, let alone know him. Is the planet so emaciated in human leadership--the Mother Teresas and Geraldine Ferraros--that we have to adulate the American dollar? Let's vote for Cap Weinberger. He will blow us up and make such further nominations unnecessary. MELVIN M. BELLI SR. San Francisco...
DIED. MELVIN BELLI, 88, flamboyant personal-injury and defense attorney dubbed the King of Torts; in San Francisco. Belli pioneered the use of "demonstrative evidence" (unveiling an artificial limb, baring a client's disfigurement) to win over juries, and took on a variety of mass-disaster cases, as well as representing televangelist Jim Bakker and Jack Ruby, the killer of Lee Harvey Oswald...
...VILLAGE IDIOT by Melvin Belli (from his closing statement in the trial of Jack Ruby for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald...
...Philip Morris discovered the first strong evidence that nicotine is addictive but suppressed the study. Waxman has called the top brass from Philip Morris and six other cigarette firms to testify before his subcommittee about their practices in hearings this week that promise to attract widespread attention. Attorney Melvin Belli is leading a coalition of high-profile lawyers that has filed a $5 billion class-action suit on behalf of everyone who has ever been addicted to nicotine. Said Belli: "We will prove that the tobacco industry has conspired to catch you, hold you and kill you." The ABC News...
...bill, which provided an arsenal of retaliatory weapons; and adoption of the E.C.'s plan to create a single market by 1992, which Washington fears will entrench a Fortress Europe behind a Siegfried Line of trade barriers. Alleged European discrimination against American telecommunications equipment is the latest U.S. casus belli; the E.C., for its part, accuses the U.S. of playing "war games" with farm legislation in the current major round of international trade negotiations, the so-called Uruguay Round, which culminates in December...