Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They see a great risk that by overkill, antiterrorist laws will jeopardize civil rights. For years, West Germany's post-Nazi constitution and subsequent legislation gave defendants and their lawyers some of the most liberal guarantees anywhere in the world. "It was a wonderful position for the defense counsel," says Heinz Brangsch, executive director of the West German Lawyers Association. "Then came terrorism and a breakdown of our position." When the terrorists came to trial, radical lawyers manipulated the liberal rules to protract proceedings, turning them into politicized circuses. Unlike William Kunstler and other radical American lawyers, they...
...terrorist problem grew, the government began changing the rules. In 1974 the parliament in Bonn adopted a law permitting the exclusion of defense counsel if he or she were suspected of participating with the defendants in their criminal acts or obstructing justice. Last year, after Schleyer's kidnaping, parliament enacted a "contact ban," permitting courts to cut off terrorist prisoners from all outside communication-including their lawyers under certain circumstances. Last week the Bundestag passed new antiterror rules that would further restrict the rights of defendants and their attorneys. Among them: placing a physical barrier between a lawyer...
While Park added no major revelations to what has been disclosed over the past 18 months, his air of injured innocence, his flippant responses to questions revealed much about the man. Said committee Counsel Leon Jaworski, who was often irritated by Park's demeanor: "He treats this whole affair as just an ordinary sort of thing." Park practiced, according to a report he wrote on how to win support for Korea in Congress, "invitation diplomacy." He entertained Congressmen in his George Town Club; he arranged junkets for them and their wives to Seoul. "The past records indicate that...
Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations, declined Wednesday to comment on the union's organizing efforts...
Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations, said Thursday that although Harvard subcontracts much of its printing work because it costs less, the University is not now considering eliminating union printing work...