Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue intensified. Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate Geraldine Ferraro found herself under seemingly concerted attack by Roman Catholic bishops for failing to embrace the church's position on abortion. Presidential Candidate Walter Mondale ran into a buzz saw of antiabortion demonstrators in the Deep South and felt compelled to defend his religious beliefs. Despite evidence to the contrary, Vice President George Bush said that he could not recall supporting any type of federal funding for abortion in his primary race against Ronald Reagan four years ago. The President, meanwhile, basked in the presence and lavish praise of a Roman Catholic...
...addition, Geer has been charged with two accounts of assault and battery of a police officer and Williamson is accused of "abuse of a foreign flag," in violation of a hundred-year-old state law which the District Attorney's office has said it would not defend...
...What I am doing here today is something that, in 25 years of public life, I never thought I would do: I have never before had to defend my faith in a political campaign...
Martin Reiser, director of the institute and chief psychologist for the Los Angeles police department, continues to defend police hypnosis vigorously, claiming that in Los Angeles no defendant was ever convicted on the basis of hypnotically enhanced testimony alone. In July the state legislature reversed part of the California Supreme Court decision, allowing witnesses and victims who have been hypnotized to testify as to their prehypnotic recollections, while stipulating that sessions be conducted only by disinterested outside psychiatrists. But since it is witnesses' posthypnotic testimony that is most valuable to police, the Svengali squads in California and elsewhere continue...
...senior fellow with the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, describes Nicaragua's economic situation as "really rough, just unbelievable." Leiken cites food shortages in the countryside, wildcat strikes in Sandinista-controlled trade unions and widespread protests against the Sandinistas' use of national conscription to defend the country against the contras. Says a State Department policymaker: "We and the Sandinistas both know they could get a better deal before rather than after the U.S. election. This is probably the best opportunity both of us will have for some time...