Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Normally, against such a half-cocked prosecution, even a fledgling Perry Mason ought to be able to spring his client in a fair trial. But Crawford, 37, a service representative for International Harvester, was being tried in a dingy Moscow courtroom on obviously trumped-up charges that he had violated Soviet law by exchanging $8,500 for 20,000 rubles with Soviet black marketeers over a 14-month period. (At the official exchange rate, $8,500 buys 5,903 rubles.) Despite Crawford's protestations of innocence, along with what Western court observers called an unusually spirited defense...
There I was, 9:30 a.m., wiping sleep from my eyes in front of the white stucco Building Four of the Southeastern Fair on the outskirts of Georgia's fair capital city, watching a television crew from the NBC show "America Alive" set up their lights and paraphernalia. Caught in the middle of a yawn as a big black Al Capone limo rolled up. Out jumped--no, not hoodlums bearing Tommy guns--but masked men and women, towels up around their faces to conceal them from the members of the press and the old black men lounging in the shade...
...media event was over. That night they would open the Southeastern Fair amid Joie Chitwood's auto thrills show, greased pig contests, the rest. Forty-one dates in 17 days, the beginning of a tour that will go around the world, include major motion pictures and, hopefully, Carson. They came out as a smoke machine smoked--"Rock and Roll Heaven," don't you understand. Hazebrouck/Croce sang "I Got a Name". Women swooned for Bolt/Elvis. He ran out of scarves to give them. There were 75 people in the audience, and they were knocked dead. And the next morning...
...denied all suggestions that he was being belligerent. On the contrary, last December he submitted to the U.S. and Egypt a 26-point peace plan for the West Bank and Gaza, together with a promise at least to return the Sinai to Egyptian sovereignty. Washington judged the plan "a fair basis for negotiation," but did not fully endorse it. Instead, Carter asked the Israelis to explain what status they envisioned for the West Bank and Gaza at the end of the plan's five-year transition period. Jerusalem's vaguely worded reply merely promised that Israel would be willing...
...judge to look at in camera! To do so, argues the Times, would be an offense against the freedom of the press guaranteed by the First Amendment. Not to turn over the files, pleaded the defense lawyer, would be to deny his client the right to a fair trial, guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment. When the First and Sixth Amendments collide, lawyers and judges (being a closed society) tend to take the Sixth. Law, more than the press, they see as an older, basic guarantor of liberty. And wasn't even Richard Nixon as President forced to give...