Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before an audience of about 125 at the halffilled Ames Courtroom. Cranston detailed his program to revive the economy Restoring taxes reduced as a result of the Kemp Roth tax bill, eliminating the MX missile system and other defense projects, and increasing employment would "lead us towards a balanced budget," he said...
...ruling by Federal District Court Judge Mark Costantino forced the Secretary to appear at the Brooklyn trial. So, just after lunch on Friday, Donovan strode toward the witness stand, smiling and nodding at the courtroom crowd. Petito's lawyer asked Donovan if he had known about any no-show payoff scheme or if he had encouraged Sanzo and Petito to lie. "Absolutely not," replied Donovan confidently...
...have felt that justice had been served. I would have welcomed the opportunity to make my oppositions to registration and the draft as clear as possible. As events would have it, I am indeed being fined, to the tune of $2500, but I have never set foot in a courtroom or seen asked by the government for an account of my actions. No witnesses were called, no testimony taken, no jury convened. Instead, I was refused all federal financial aid because I declined to return the registration compliance form sent to me by the financial aid office. The United States...
...resistance, community objections and philosophical protests are integral aspects of the situation, and will be reported. By punishing thousands of people without granting them a trait the government has succeded in serving its own interests and quelling dissent without the critical dialogue and messy public debate usually associated with courtroom proceedings. Especially in conditions like these, the writer was obligated to consider more than merely the bald fact of increased compliance. It would seem routine to interview a student who is actually being affected by the measure as long as there are apparently three of us here at Harvard...
...chief defense attorney, Howard Weitzman, was naturally upset at the premature presentation of evidence that would have been hard enough to deal with during the trial. The lawyer had tried to prevent the broadcast after he learned from CBS that it had the tapes. Weitzman raced into the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Robert Takasugi, who will preside over the trial, and demanded a temporary restraining order. Judge Takasugi quickly complied. But an appeals court just as quickly struck down his order. After CBS aired the tapes, Takasugi denounced the network for "interference" in the judicial process, lamenting that...