Word: lawyers
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Monday, October 6 NET JOURNAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). "Speak Out on Drugs" brings together eight 15-to-20-year-olds who talk about their experiences with marijuana, LSD and "speed" (amphetamine). Questions phoned in by viewers will be answered and discussed by an M.D., a lawyer and a psychologist...
...leave the Democratic Party only when it swings too far to the liberal side, and Procaccino has not done that. He also seeks to include behind his average-man barricade another, more elusive segment of the population?typified by the schoolteacher, the junior accountant, the shopkeeper, the middle-income lawyer or engineer who chooses to work for the government...
...bloodless takeover itself was un remarkable in a country which, during its 144-year history, has had 185 changes of government, mostly by coups. The ousted civilian President, Lawyer Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, was serving' as Vice President last April when President René Barrientos, the flamboyant ex-air chief, was killed in a helicopter crash. Ovando, the army chief and Barrientos' partner in the 1964 coup against Victor Paz Estenssoro, was in the U.S. at the time. Except for that fact, he almost certainly would have seized power then...
...code entitled servicemen to lawyers in all general courts-martial but not necessarily in special courts-martial (which outnumber general courts-martial by more than 20 to 1) unless the prosecutor was a lawyer. Because of a scarcity of military lawyers, most defendants at special courts-martial were represented by officers without law degrees. The U.C.M.J. also set up the U.S. Court of Military Appeals in Washington, which has decreed that men in uniform are protected by a number of the safeguards in the Bill of Rights...
...veniremen for the court-martial board (jury); he even selected the defense counsel, though the accused could ask for another one. Thus the code did not eliminate the phenomenon known as "command control." Looking back on his experience as a Marine legal officer during the Korean War, Boston Trial Lawyer Joseph Oteri describes the C.O.'s influence on military courts this way: "The word always filtered down that the Old Man wanted such and such to happen. And, miracle of miracles, it always did." Within this system, a career officer assigned as defense counsel often helps the miracle along...