Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ceauşescu's five brothers, Ilie is a major general, Ion is a deputy minister of agriculture, Marin is a counsel at the Rumanian embassy in Vienna, and Florea is a senior editorial writer for the party newspaper, Scinteia. His brother Nicolae (in Rumania, brothers sometimes have the same first name) is consul-general in Kiev...
...protesters cheered from across the road, the demonstrators walked into the Denver County Sheriff's department bus. Magistrates were standing by to receive the demonstrators at a makeshift booking station at the U.S. Geological Survey headquarters in Lakewood, a Denver suburb. Six attorneys accompanied the demonstrators and offered free counsel...
...think anyone's mind is changed by marches and protests anymore." Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said early Monday morning as he stood outside Massachusetts Hall watching demonstrators confront students going to 10 a.m. classes...
...threat of civil war in the provinces, the Committee condemned hundreds of aristocrats, clergymen and ordinary folk to their death on charges of plotting counterrevolutionary activities. Justice was rough, swift and harsh. Wit nesses were summoned at the discretion of the courts, defendants were refused the right of counsel, and verdicts were limited to acquittal or death. The rattle of the tumbrels, the two-wheeled carts that car ried the doomed through the streets to the guillotine, became a familiar sound in French cities...
...harsh results have prompted human rights activists to begin keeping lists of their own: a fortnight ago, a visiting delegation of prominent New York lawyers handed the government the names of 99 detained lawyers and 92 others who have simply vanished. Says one Western diplomat: "The right to counsel barely exists in Argentina. Most people are advised that having a lawyer is counterproductive...