Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter later ruled in Browning's favor on another matter: a defense demand that Patty's case be dismissed because the Government had withheld evidence that might help show the defendant's innocence of the charges against her. At issue were the photographs taken by the Hibernia Bank's security cameras, which clearly showed Patty taking part in the robbery. The defense claimed that the prosecution's reproductions of the pictures left out S.L.A. Member Camilla Hall, who, Patty's lawyers argued, was pointing her carbine at the defendant. Vernon Kipping, the FBI expert...
...novel Roche's hopeless and fragile position has made him an unwitting accomplice in the murder of his mistress, and his revolutionary opponent is simply a personal opponent. Just because he reduces his paragons of imperialist and guerrilla to such an individualistic level, Naipaul does not dismiss the issue of imperialism. Imperialism has much more subtle effects, Naipaul indicates, than building slums and mansions and creating racist distinctions. Imperialism twists social relations, turns rebels into sexual perverts and capitalists into unsuspecting in-stigators of revolution. The simple black and white definitions are not adequate for the scorched and ambiguous flora...
...duel was a dramatic test for both. A conscientious but colorless prosecutor, Browning had been overshadowed throughout the trial by Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey. Browning had not tried a case in six years; instead, he administered the work of his assistants. San Francisco lawyers tended to dismiss him with faint praise ("Jim-well, he's a nice guy"). But the prosecutor was stubbornly confident he would win: he had the facts, he liked to say. Bailey himself had posed the problem that would face Browning when he began the cross-examination that lasted two days. If Browning pressed...
Several options are open. There's always the interventionist approach: covert operations, Chile-style, via the CIA. American citizens may dismiss this possibility, treating Chile as an aberration which could not be repeated in western Europe. But the Italians themselves fear this possibility more than any other and in self-defense have published all the names of top-level CIA agents in Italy...
Still, this is not to dismiss Carter's glaring vulnerabilities. The Nation, Washington Monthly, The Progressive and other prominent liberal publications have played patsy with "Grinny" Jimmy Earl Carter, while their abovementioned counterparts have neglected to ask him hard questions about his halfway unemployment cures, his "voluntary" busing plan that has failed to integrate Atlanta schools, and his corporation-tilted tax reform proposals. All in all, it's been a mixed performance for the boys...