Word: client
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sides were ready to engage in big-power politicking. A reluctant Japan was pressured into co-sponsoring the U.S. resolutions and joining the pro-Nationalist lobbying effort. Wavering countries, such as Panama, which is involved in delicate canal-treaty negotiations, were brought into line with sharp reminders of their client status. Washington stumbled badly, however, when it leaked word that Secretary of State William Rogers had been privately warning delegates that a defeat on the China vote might endanger the $200 million a year that Washington contributes to the U.N. Arm-twisting is part of the game...
Perhaps expectedly, the primary villain in the tragedy is the American state. Under the guise of preventing 'Communist bloc' expansion, American imperialism uses military aid to prop up totalitarian regimes around the globe. That the client regimes remain subservient to U.S. hegemony is the only condition that must be met before the aid is provided. This American weaponry is currently being used against the people of Bangla Desh...
...trial of Captain Ernest L. Medina, Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey worried that public pressure would force the Army to impose some kind of punishment on his client. As it turned out, he had nothing to fear. After deliberating 68 minutes, the five-man military jury reached a verdict of not guilty on all counts of murder, manslaughter and assault...
...Florida Cosmetics Millionaire Glenn Turner, who also contributed $25,000 to his defense fund. Turner, a supersalesman who operates 58 assorted companies from Orlando, Fla., engaged Bailey to help him out of legal difficulties in several states; Bailey, in turn, asked Turner for help with his less affluent client. Turner, who likes to hand out $100 bills to indigent passersby, was only too happy to comply. Turner, in a bright blue suit with a 2-in. by 4-in. American flag pin in his lapel, explained: "I'm a sucker for causes...
...James Bond. At week's end neither man had been caught. Kaplan's Mexican attorney declared that his client was a CIA agent and that the rescue had been engineered by the agency. But a spokesman for Jacob Kaplan pooh-poohed all that. "People are determined to substitute James Bond for the Kaplan family name," he said, though he could offer no explanation of just who had carried out the spectacular stunt. In Mexico, meanwhile, Attorney General Julio Sanchez Vargas was forced to resign, and prison officials and all 136 guards were arrested for questioning. The movie, after...