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Kadiatou's lawyer, Anthony Gair, says her "strength is remarkable." She may need every ounce of it to get through the trial, as every horrifying detail about her son's death is dredged up and his name is dragged, ever so delicately, through the mud by the defense. As it was in Simi Valley, Calif., where a jury with no black members acquitted the cops accused in the videotaped beating of Rodney King, the defense strategy in Albany is plain: say the cops were justified, and blame the victim. Talk about the fear that enveloped the four members...
...Gair; LP: Brown
Totally frustrated, Whitlam tried to upset the balance in the Senate by persuading a longtime foe, Senator Vincent Gair, to accept the ambassadorship to Ireland. What Whitlam saw as a masterly stroke, his opponents, together with most of the Australian press, viewed as a cynical ploy. Whatever it was, the plan backfired. Instead of Gair's seat going to a Whitlam supporter as the Prime Minister expected, the premier of Queensland State used a loophole in the law to put in another conservative. Finally, when the opposition in the Senate, spoiling for a fight, began to carry...
...money-supply bill. But Whitlam took up the challenge: he said that he would treat a Senate deferral as a refusal of supply. He therefore sought the dissolution of Parliament and called for general elections to be held on May 18. Frustrated by his defeat in the Gair imbroglio and the Senate's long-term obstruction of his program, Whitlam had only one means of gaining control in the Senate-to take the risk of a new election...
...more independent voice. Whitlam, 58, is also a more popular and commanding figure than the untried Snedden, 47, a former Perth newsboy who took over as Liberal leader after the 1972 elections. The race will be close. But most observers feel that the government, having recovered well from the Gair affair, starts out as a slight favorite to retain office...