Word: lees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Attorney James L. Browning Jr. had argued that Patty's life before her arrest showed she was an accomplice of the S.L.A. and hence had a bearing on whether she had willingly taken part in the robbery. In rebuttal, Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey claimed not only that the defendant's actions did not bear on the robbery, but that the material might be used to try to connect her with other crimes-a violation, he said, of her basic rights...
...career: killing an elephant with an overdose of LSD. West was trying to find out why elephants have periods of madness. Bancroft also tried to no avail to show that West was habitually soft on defendants. West did add one interesting point: after Jack Ruby was convicted for killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the psychiatrist was called in to examine him. West said he found Ruby to be mentally ill and recommended treatment...
Like many other Americans, Bucher has been wondering whether Patty Hearst could convincingly plead that she was psychologically coerced into bank robbery. Bucher does not presume to know what her state of mind was, he told TIME Correspondent David Lee, but he argues that "no one is immune. A person can be made to do damned near anything under threat if he is determined to remain alive...
...much help from his old friend, South Africa's Vorster. After its unhappy intervention in Angola, which endangered its detente efforts with black Africa, the Pretoria government is not about to send troops into Rhodesia. "If it comes to that," a South African general recently told TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs, "there will certainly be some volunteers to go and fight, but we won't cross the Limpopo River [the South African-Rhodesian border...
Houston Opera General Director David Gockley, 32, commissioned Bilby's Doll as his company's bow to the Bicentennial celebration. He has presented it well. Ming Cho Lee's skeletal sets have just the right blend of reality and make-believe. As Doll, Catherine Malfitano, 27, acts intelligently and sings with a clear lyric soprano; she is obviously going places. The rest of the cast is almost as good, notably Mezzo Joy Davidson (Hannah), Bass Thomas Paul (Bilby) and Tenor Jack Trussel (Shad...