Word: gideons
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...series of landmark cases that began with Gideon vs. Wainwright (1963), the Supreme Court ruled that any criminal facing a possible jail sentence was entitled to have an attorney. At the same time, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society Administration began to provide millions of dollars to set up local legal services programs to handle such civil court problems of the poor as evictions, consumer complaints and fights with bureaucracies. Over the next decade and a half, the increasing commitment of Government to provide lawyers for the poor led some to note with acerbic exaggeration that only the very rich...
...course, that is precisely what Begin did. Yet the process that had forced his hand also gave proof that the principles of democracy and justice on which Israel was founded had not been buried in the rubble of Sabra and Shatila. As former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gideon Rafael put it: "The people of Israel are not only a stiff-necked but a fundamentally decent people. They will not tolerate a government that has morally, politically and economically bankrupted the country...
...that end, the Elysées offers six restaurants and ten bars, a disco, a nightclub, a businessman's service center with stock exchange quotes and multilingual secretaries, a fitness club, a swimming pool with "beach club," even a corner for bridge players. There are no Gideon Bibles in the rooms. Instead, to "Parisianize" foreigners, Hatt plans to provide French classics. On the walls hang framed pens...
...them. In 1954 they appointed a special counsel when a challenge to the Virgin Islands' lenient divorce laws struck them as halfhearted. And the court has occasionally appointed lawyers for indigent or inadequately represented litigants, as it did in 1963 when Abe Fortas was asked to argue Clarence Gideon's landmark right-to-counsel case. But such examples are scarcely parallel. In the current tax cases, says Democratic Congressman Don Edwards of California, "the question is: 'Is the Justice Department interested in enforcing civil rights...
Even if an American has all the qualifications, does he have a chance at a top post? "If you have two people at the same point in their careers, then there probably is an advantage to being European," says Gideon Toeplitz, executive director of the Houston Symphony. "In America, there's a mystery behind being Indian or Japanese or European that contributes greatly from a marketing point of view." Adds another major orchestra manager: "Orchestras are always looking for that extra presence that leaps across the footlights, charisma. The foreign element may add to that...