Word: client
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late 1981 or early 1982 worked out a deal, which later fell through, to obtain a top-of-the-line T-72 Soviet battle tank from Iraq, a Soviet client, in return for American self-propelled artillery weapons for the Iraqi army...
Demjanjuk's defense has not been helped by constant squabbling among his U.S. and Israeli lawyers. Nor have their tactics impressed the court. When Israeli Defense Attorney Yoram Sheftel argued that his client was the victim of a KGB conspiracy, he was interrupted by Judge Dalia Dorner. Said she: "All that I can say to you is that if this is your line of defense, then you really have a very, very severe problem...
That was, of course, a reference to one of the more memorable lines uttered during the Iran-contra hearings: Attorney Brendan Sullivan's notable "I am not a potted plant" response when Senator Daniel Inouye grew impatient with the lawyer's frequent objections and suggested that his client, Oliver North, should be the one to speak up. The fact that the President would remind his audiences even obliquely of the scandal that has seriously impaired his effectiveness signaled his rising optimism. Although the Wisconsin demonstrations had been carefully stage-managed, they reinforced Reagan's recovery from the doldrums inflicted...
...hearings' chairman, Sen. Daniel Inouye (D.-Hawaii), began his closing statement at the end of North's testimony, he invoked the lesson of the Nuremburg trials. Inouye said that those trials had invalidated the just-following-orders defense for all time. North's attorney, Brendan Sullivan, jumped to his client's defense. Sullivan challenged the Senator, saying that Inouye purported to be listening to the American people. Some 20,000 favorable telegrams were sitting on his desk, the lawyer protested, and that represented the people's will. In the face of such popular acclaim, allusions to the Nuremberg trials...
After his arrest for committing a series of armed robberies, Jose Luis Razo told reporters that no one at Harvard understood him. Razo's attorney plans to defend his client by arguing that the sophomore football player robbed from the rich to prove that he was still "a homeboy." The media loves the story: a latter day Robin Hood psychologically torn between attending the bastion of northeastern elitism, Harvard, and proving to his friends that he was true to his Hispanic roots...