Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plenty of work for honest lawyers, who can earn $70,000 a year or more and who often contribute free legal services to the neediest. Some are respected human rights attorneys, like Miami's Ira Kurzban, who besides conducting his regular private practice has given much time free to defend Haitian boat people. Complains A.I.L.A. Executive Director Warren Leiden: "There's a bad rap against immigration attorneys...
...Soviet-built MiG jets, a move that Washington has previously warned might provoke a U.S. military response. Asked after his speech whether he had MiGs on his mind, Ortega replied cryptically that "Nicaragua is almost the only country in Central America that does not have the ability to defend itself rapidly...
...testimony, the justices ruled, violated the defendants' constitutional protections against self-incrimination. If allowed to stand, the decision would deal a fatal blow to the prosecution. To many it was seen as leading to Ver's acquittal. Ver's lawyer, Antonio Coronel, said that he intends to move for dismissal of the charges, declaring that "you don't defend yourself against nothing." A possible appeal by the prosecution is under study...
...David peace process and purchases arms from the Soviet Union." That move, declared a frustrated Shultz, was an attempt "to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye." The Administration argued that now more than ever, as he pushes for peace, the King needs the weapons to defend himself against his enemies -- notably Syria, which fervently opposes an Arab-Israeli rapprochement. The Heinz-Kennedy resolution may come to nothing, but the support it found was an indication of the obstacles an arms request for Jordan will face on Capitol Hill...
...volleys into Amal positions. Whatever their differences with Arafat, his P.L.O. opponents were furious at the strong-arm tactics of the Shi'ites. Said George Habash, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: "No force on earth can take away the arms of a people who defend their just cause." Abu Mousa, another leading P.L.O. dissident, accused Amal of "disseminating lies to cover its crimes against Palestinians." While the battlefield alliance hardly amounted to a permanent reunification of the bitterly divided P.L.O., it demonstrated to Syria, which had given at least tacit backing to the Amal offensive...