Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During his two days of testimony, with no lawyer whispering in his ear and no litany of don't-recalls, the Secretary of State gave a distinct moral lift to an affair in which the line between heroes and villains has often been blurred. Even when Shultz was discussing whether he should have resigned to stop the arms-for-hostages scheme, his measured outrage was bracing. Given the "systematic way in which the National Security Council staff deliberately deceived me," he noted, "my sense of Did I do enough? has to a certain extent given way to a little edge...
...Archer broke down on the witness stand defending her husband, while Coghlan dissolved into sobs several times. When Archer's lawyer accused her of concocting the tale in exchange for $10,000 from the News, Coghlan burst out, "You are a liar." At one point, after Coghlan testified that the man she said was Archer had had a pimply back, Mrs. Archer forthrightly declared that her husband possessed "excellent skin." Archer, who did not show his back as evidence, testified that he spent the evening in question dining at a fashionable Mayfair restaurant named Le Caprice. Even the judge seemed...
...tumultuous career. He was forced to give up politics and resign from Parliament five years later when bad investments left him near bankruptcy. Those misfortunes became the grist for his first best seller, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less (1975), a title that his lawyer last week jokingly suggested should serve as a guide to the jury in setting damages. Archer's seven books have sold 30 million copies worldwide, making him a multimillionaire and, until last fall, a star on the Tory speaking circuit. Whether he plans to re-enter politics remains uncertain. But many...
...Swarthmore College, peacetime service as an Army private in Korea (he studied Korean to break the tedium of barracks life) and Harvard Law School. Even at Swarthmore, recalls Dr. Richard Burtis, a classmate, Dukakis talked about his ambition to be Governor of Massachusetts. Small wonder that as a young lawyer he plunged into Brookline politics with a vengeance, engineering a good-government takeover of the town Democratic committee and then building an organization to expand the fight statewide. There was a strong element of social class to the struggle: well- educated reformers rebelling against old-line Irish ethnic politics. Elected...
...that the French embassy had been cordoned off and that some of its officials would be arrested for spying. His threat quickly raised fears that the French diplomats might be seized in an ugly replay of the U.S. embassy hostage nightmare of 1979-81. Warned Christian Bourguet, a French lawyer who helps represent the Iranian government in Paris: "The risk now is that the crowds in Iran might do something like what happened to the Americans. That is to say, a veritable invasion of the embassy...