Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Filipino sociologists trace the high incidence of political shoot-outs to the islands' rigid feudalistic society. Members of a particular clan feel great loyalty to their leader, and the duty to defend him far outweighs the legal injunction against killing. Though the candidates themselves usually counsel moderation and almost never do any shooting, their followers often feel compelled by a fierce sense of honor to avenge insults-or to ensure their leader's victory by canceling out the other names on the ballot with bullets...
This is the first time the Judicial Board has allowed representation by counsel. Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, said yesterday that this decision "does not involve any reversal in policy, but came in response to new questions and in the interest of sound judgment." She said the decision would set a precedent...
Whatever their anxiety over the war, few papers propose extreme solutions, whether hawkish or dovish. In fact, they warn constantly against them and firmly counsel moderation...
...facts," writes Ridgway wryly, "seemed developed beyond the average in MacArthur's nature." He adds: "I cannot help drawing a parallel with Custer's behavior at the Little Big Horn, when the commander's overriding belief that he alone was right closed his mind to all counsel...
Even Death. Last week the most publicized test case so far got under way at a pretrial hearing in Massachusetts. Mounting the attack was an outspoken, cigar-chewing attorney named Joseph Oteri. A 36-year-old ex-Marine captain who currently serves as counsel for the National Association of Police Officers, Oteri is not the sort usually expected to be behind such causes, but the marijuana law "gripes me," he explains. "The hazards of marijuana are a myth." As a means of proving it, he took on the defense of Ivan Weiss and Joseph Leis, two college dropouts charged with...