Word: clearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent abhorrent Palestinian raid in Israel [March 20] along with all the others makes it terrifyingly clear that if a Palestinian state is established in Israel it will be only a beachhead from which to launch attacks on Israel. War and more bloody terrorism will be the result, not peace...
...Caracas, Carter delighted an audience of several hundred at the airport with a short speech in halting Spanish. Venezuelans said his accent was terrible, but his grammar ,was good and his meaning was clear. "Viva Venezuela," he declared in winding up his remarks...
...same day, Giscard received the visit of his archrival, Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac. After a private 65-minute talk, Chirac said only that "we discussed the political situation, but this is neither the time nor the place to make any comments." Still, it seemed clear that the Gaullist had voiced his displeasure at the President's "opening to the left...
...system works better than anything else available." Nonetheless, bar officials realize that the system requires improvement. In an effort to make it function better, a blue-ribbon committee of the A.B.A. is currently revising the 1969 Code of Professional Responsibility. A vague, well-meaning document, the code provides few clear-cut answers to the problems facing the modern legal profession. A.B.A. President William Spann asks, for example, "Is the lawyer obligated to blow the whistle on a client who ignores his legal advice and violates the law?" The answer is muddy under the current code, but most lawyers generally reply...
Even with a more clear-cut ethics code, it will be no easy task to root out a number of legal practices that inflate clients' bills, slow down the due administration of justice and provoke public hostility. "Lawyers love to play games," says Dallas Attorney G. William Baab. The games are invariably good for the lawyer, occasionally good for his client and rarely good for society. Among them...