Word: hartman
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Such television plugs began running in 14 cities last week. They are the latest venture of Producer Norman Lear, creator of such series as Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and All in the Family. Lear's obvious targets are fellow TV personalities: Jerry Falwell and other right-wing preachers who are taking part in the presidential campaign. Lear became so exercised about religious politicians that he raised $300,000 to buy air time for his spots and gave his time, talent and name to People for the American Way. Beyond the new TV spots, PAW is working on educational programs...
Jerry Falwell, who professes to be committed to U.S. pluralism, thinks the PAW crusade is mere partisanship. "Norman Lear sees a future threat to what he is doing, to the pornographic television he produces like Mary Hartman and Maude. He used Archie Bunker and Edith for years to demean women, got rich doing it, then gave a big donation to the women's movement. He's just playing games again, and using some liberal theologians for his own devices...
Federal prosecutors may have built their case against Veverka in part on his admissions during the two pretrial interviews. Veverka's lawyers, Douglas Hartman and Denis Dean, are expected to argue that the grant of immunity was retroactive, thus shielding all their client's confessions from use by the Justice Department. Says Hartman: "It's a very sad day when the state takes a man, uses him to the hilt, and then the Feds come in and react to political pressure and indict him. We feel Veverka has been betrayed by the judicial system." Veverka thinks...
...trial. Any one of the participants in the beating is fair game for federal prosecutors, who in recent years have pursued several civil rights cases against defendants who first fought state charges. So the only question in Veverka's case is whether such action constitutes, as Hartman puts it, a "reneging on the contract of immunity...
Captain Bob Horne had no problem with Mark Jeffrey, outplaying him to the tune of 6-4, 6-3. Adam Beren looked like he had the easiest match of the day, trouncing Greg Hartman...