Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former White House deputy chief of staff turned high-priced lobbyist continues to maintain steadfastly that he has not abused his close relationship with Reagan. But at week's end, when Deaver tried to make his way into the Capitol to defend his actions before a closed-door session of a congressional subcommittee, he found himself at the center of a rising storm over influence peddling in Washington. Reporters mobbed him, cameramen jostled him, and flashing strobe lights so blinded him that he walked right past the committee-room door. "After five months of rumor, leaks and innuendo," Deaver bravely...
...nine justices have removed themselves from the Garcia Meza case. It is no wonder: on April 23 a replacement judge was mysteriously shot and wounded. Garcia Meza, 53, has done nothing to dissipate the atmosphere of intimidation. When he unexpectedly strode into court last month to defend himself, ending four years of exile and hiding, he was escorted by a platoon of soldiers. He now lives in an army garrison outside the city of Sucre, where the trial is being held...
Such fears are exaggerated; not all satellite-beamed signals are being scrambled, and the $395 decoder will bring in most of the ones that are. Pay- cable executives defend their right to charge dish owners for picking up their channels. Subscription fees are what defray the cost of programming, they argue, and it is only fair that dish owners ante up too. "In order for this product to exist, it has to be paid for by those who use it," says Duncan Murray, a vice president of the Disney Channel...
That stung the Sandinista leadership. It was a prescient observation. One of the government's first steps was to move in on a new church-sponsored group called the Justice and Peace Commission, whose aim was to defend human rights. Marta Patricia Baltodano, a lawyer and longtime human rights activist who helped organize the commission, asserts that she learned of a Sandinista plan to discredit her by forcing an accuser to claim falsely that she had engaged in sexual relations with a priest. Baltodano fled to exile in Costa Rica last December. "We realized we were not going...
...difficult to see why the Sandinistas are so anxious to keep a tight rein on Obando. At a May Day Mass last week, the Cardinal used his homily to defend the right to strike, which was among the guarantees suspended in October. He warned sternly that "Marxism does not have the solution for the working class." In the past Obando has attacked Nicaragua's unpopular universal military draft and urged young men to enter seminaries as a way of avoiding it. He has urged the government to negotiate with the contra rebels and declined to condemn the Reagan Administration...