Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dismaying when, on the eve of the conference, Daniel Moynihan, the executive secretary of the Urban Affairs Council, informed the nation that any peace dividend that accrued would quickly be soaked up by increased defense costs and burgeoning domestic programs such as welfare and aid to education. But Presidential Counsel Arthur Burns was an early guest of the Governors, and he had more hopeful news. There had been a "little misunderstanding" of Moynihan's remarks, he allowed, and in fact "there would be $8 billion if the war ended today" for use in new or expanded domestic areas...
...justices could agree with Kennedy's lawyers that Boyle's rules are inappropriate and that counsel for one or all of the witnesses should have the privilege of crossexamination, subpoenaing witnesses and so on. Some lawyers regard this as a remote alternative, since the inquest is not a trial...
...Houston President Philip Hoffman, "that we are not going to hesitate to bring in the police or the district attorney whenever violence threatens property or life and limb." The University of Miami established a new security office last May; its first director, Fred Doerner Jr., a former legal counsel for the F.B.I., has since hired an assistant and 32 uniformed guards to patrol the campus round the clock...
...Attorneys for witnesses may not be present at a grand-jury proceeding. They are sometimes allowed at an inquest; yet they are not normally permitted to raise objections to the testimony, nor do they have the right to cross-examine witnesses. Thus, the inquest testimony can range widely, and counsel is forbidden to challenge any allegations that are made, no matter how farfetched. Kennedy's lawyers claim, however, that a recent Supreme Court decision gives them this prerogative in any hearing aimed at "exposing violations of criminal law by specific individuals...
...opposite extreme. While the new skepticism can have healthy results in terms of a more realistic defense structure, it can also degenerate into indiscriminate slashing of military strength. Now that critics of the Defense Department are in full cry, the accused should be entitled to articulate counsel...