Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...excess leave"-for an abortion. And while a cadet may have her baby if she chooses, she cannot marry until she has graduated. Motherhood, said the Air Force, is not sufficient cause to amend the traditional ban on marriage in all the service academies. Explained one Pentagon lawyer, perhaps too hastily: pregnancy is temporary but marriage is permanent...
...President's own financial holdings are in for a reshuffling. His two-thirds share in the Plains peanut warehousing and processing business, which he took over and expanded after his father died in 1953, has been put up for sale. The man behind the move is Atlanta Lawyer Charles Kirbo, the close presidential adviser who manages Carter's assets under a blind trust. (The President will keep his 241-acre peanut farm.) Neither Brother Billy nor Mother Lillian, who own the remaining third of the business, wants to run the warehouse, which has been operated since September...
...Lawyer: What right did you have to keep a man in chains for 48 hours? ... I am asking for the statute...
...Lawyer: Thank you very much, Colonel. That is what we always suspected...
...lawyer was Sydney Woolf Kentridge, one of South Africa's most able trial attorneys; the witness was Colonel Pieter Johannes Goosen, the officer in charge of security police at Port Elizabeth. Their angry exchange in Pretoria last week provided the dramatic high point of an extraordinary public inquest into the death of Black Consciousness Leader Stephen Biko...