Word: defend
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...right to counsel has been guaranteed by the Supreme Court, said Philadelphia Judge Robert N.C. Nix Jr. "But it's the judges' responsibility to make sure it is effective counsel." That may mean assigning a black lawyer to defend a black suspect so that the attorney "speaks the defendant's language...
...fall, it will open a day care center to help the several dozen mothers who now take their babies with them to class. Mindful of his own prison stay, Hurst recruits parolees, recently started an extension of the college in a reformatory. Several lawyers on the Malcolm X faculty defend students who Hurst says are often harassed by Chicago police...
...Combat Forces. Beyond the U.N. issue, Taiwan's principal concern is fear of withdrawal of U.S. military support. It has a modern and powerful armed force, and Secretary of State William Rogers has assured the Nationalists that the U.S. will stand by its commitments to defend the island against any mainland attack. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week voted to repeal a 1955 congressional resolution that had redundantly empowered the President to use all means to defend Taiwan against attack. The vote on the repeal in no way abrogated the U.S. defense treaty with Taiwan. But Taipei...
...Suvero once declared that his work must be able "to defend itself against an unarmed man." That is a peculiar-sounding remark, evoking an image of the sculpture as punching bag. But it is of a piece with the aims and the actual look of his constructions. They are to be swung on, climbed, played with. "Mark can set kids going the way nobody else I've heard of can," says his dealer, Richard Bellamy. "His loft is always full of them...
...mound fashioned from mud and saliva, of a locust plague in Ethiopia, of a single drop of water killing an insect with its impact. Perhaps the most memorable sequence shows African driver ants. These sightless creatures instinctively use their bodies to form a carriage for their obese queen, and defend her by hurling themselves against attackers with suicidal ferocity. The viewer is brought so deeply into all this that after a few minutes the film begins to take on a surprising immediacy. Like all good science fiction, The Hellstrom Chronicle suggests an alternate reality, then surrounds you with it, inducing...