Word: cased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidency. Where did he lose touch? What went wrong in Viet Nam? Ronnie Dugger, owner of the liberal Texas Observer and an expert Lyndonologist, speculates: "He has given up on current opinion and retreated into history. With his memoirs, he is going to try to make as strong a case as possible for his decisions, particularly about the war. He is plunged into self-justification...
...involved in the killing of Chuyen; Abrams refused. Then, in Washington, the agency turned to Army Secretary Stanley Resor, pleading at length to be let off the hook of complicity in Chuyen's death. Once more it got no satisfaction, so now it is leaking its case to the public...
Although his performance early in the case was erratic and ill-formed, Dinis promises an aggressive pursuit at the inquest. He has some lapses to make up. It was he who agreed that an autopsy did not seem necessary immediately after the accident, permitted Mary Jo's body to be shipped to Pennsylvania and, many believe, avoided involvement in the matter until he belatedly saw an opportunity to make political capital out of it. In 1948, Dinis, a Democrat, replaced his late father, an immigrant Portuguese furniture maker, in the Massachusetts state legislature. Ten years ago he became...
...kept up a correspondence with the university's president, Psychologist G. Stanley Hall. The letters abound with expressions of gratitude and courtesy. But one with a sharper tone replied to Hall's suggestion that Prize Disciple Carl Jung's bitter split with Freud was a classic case of adolescent rebellion. "If the real facts were more familiar to you," Freud wrote, "you would very likely not have thought that there was again a case where a father did not let his sons develop, but you would have seen that the sons wished to eliminate their father...
...hate to see the judicial process used for extrajudicial ends," says Victor Earle of New York City, one of the lawyers who argued the historic Miranda case before the Supreme Court. He was referring in part to the generally held view that Dinis' intention may be to enhance his own political career. Abraham Goldstein, professor of law at Yale, is among those who believe that Dinis should have brought the case before a grand jury, which would have conducted its hearings in secret. "The whole investigative process could be pursued more reasonably with a grand jury." says Goldstein. Professor...