Word: contempts
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...eyeball he softens, not hardens. He listens, smiles, talks softly, encouragingly. What will Gromyko hear? How will he size up the leader of the free world? We still wonder whether Nikita Khrushchev's assessment of John Kennedy launched the Cuban missile crisis and whether Leonid Brezhnev's contempt for Jimmy Carter encouraged the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
...Held in contempt of court, Robinson was arrested, then released and given a hero's welcome at his office. The sheriff trades heavily on his good ole boy charm, stumping hard in rural areas and bellowing, "The Republicans can call me a cowboy, or they can call me Sue, but they are fixin' to get a tiger in their tails like they've never had before...
Mellish, 32, the father of three sons, refused, invoking the right to confidentiality for conversations with someone he was counseling. Such a claim has normally been honored by judges in the U.S., but Mellish was sentenced to 60 days for contempt of court and spent one night in jail earlier this month. He is now free on bond while an appeals court reviews his case...
...only about 100 cases have involved efforts to abrogate the clergy-penitent privilege, says the Rev. John C. Bush, head of the Kentucky Council of Churches and the co-author of The Right to Silence: Privileged Clergy Communication and the Law. Bush adds that no recognized clergyman, accused of contempt of court for claiming the privilege, has lost if he fought for his rights and appealed to a higher court. In one celebrated instance, the Rev. Paul Boe, an American Lutheran Church official, avoided jail in 1974 after he refused to testify before a federal grand jury investigating an American...
...happens, the Mellish case is not the only one currently in court. There is at least one other, which turns on a somewhat narrower set of facts. In Arizona, David Crumbaugh, a Pentecostal minister, is fighting a six-month contempt sentence and $1,000 fine for refusing to testify about what the wife of a convicted child killer told him while he counseled both during the murder trial. But Crumbaugh "got weak for a moment," as he put it, and has already signed an affidavit detailing what the wife said, thus undermining his privilege claim. Nonetheless, the National Coalition...