Word: client
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jail. Ehrlichman has been convicted besides of conspiracy and perjury in the illegal plumbers' operation, and began serving a 20-month to eight-year sentence on those charges last October, at Arizona's Federal Prison Camp at Safford. Last week his Washington attorney said his client would not make further appeals on the new decision. Lawyers for Mitchell and Haldeman said they would ask the Supreme Court for a rehearing; only two such petitions have been granted of the last 700 or so to come before the court...
...Russians face a delicate diplomatic problem in trying to gain a new client on the Horn of Africa. Too many gestures of friendship to Mengistu are bound to alienate Somalia, which Russia also supplies and which is being wooed out of the Russian orbit by promises of economic aid from Saudi Arabia. Apparently unbothered by such strategic complications, Mengistu is planning an all-out assault on Eritrea, led by a people's militia of 200,000 peasants equipped with cast-off American arms and trained-if that is the word -by a small cadre of Cuban advisers. They hope...
...Moscow has been able to extend its influence in Africa aggressively, although the long-range benefits of this effort are not yet clear. With client regimes in power in Angola and Mozambique, the Russians have buckled a kind of Red belt of influence across the middle of the continent. Now if they can hold on to Somalia and bring Ethiopia into their orbit, they will have hooked a suspender onto the belt. Meanwhile the other gallus is shaping up along the Atlantic coast of Africa, involving Zaire, the Congo, Benin and Guinea-Bissau...
...that Anthony Faretta should be retried and given the option of representing himself. Dissenting Justice Harry Blackmun grumbled that the ruling "bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself," alluding to the old proverb, "Anyone who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client...
...citadels of proven resources (see map): the Middle East (with 368 billion bbl.), followed by the Soviet Union (78 billion bbl.), Africa (61 billion bbl.) and the U.S. (31 billion bbl.). The CIA'S forecast of shortages assumed that the Soviet Union, now an oil exporter, and its client states in Eastern Europe would become net importers by 1985. Other oil experts would argue that Moscow may continue to be an exporter, or at least be self-sufficient, since it is developing its gigantic Tyumen field in western Siberia and pressing ahead other far-north exploitation...