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WASHINGTON--Michael K. Deaver, a close associate of Ronald Reagan through most of his political life, was convicted yesterday of lying under oath to deflect allegations he used his influence with the president in his career as a lobbyist...
Archconservative Pontiac Dealer Evan Mecham needed five tries to become Governor of Arizona. Now, just ten months after taking his oath, the grandfatherly Mormon is under siege. He has been ridiculed in the comic strip Doonesbury, faces a formidable recall campaign, and is the target of a grand jury investigation that could lead to impeachment...
...issue be disallowed, Presiding Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson has agreed to hear medical witnesses on Deaver's problems. In other cases, judges have allowed testimony on whether alcohol impaired a defendant's intent to commit a crime. To prove perjury, Seymour must show that Deaver intended to lie under oath...
...Calero at Harvard Law School did deny us an opportunity to hear this U.S.-sponsored terrorist excuse his violence. Hopefully, Tony Avirgan and his lawyer Daniel Sheehan, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School associated with the Christic Institue, will yet enable Calero to speak, but under oath and cross-examination. Michael L. Charney, M.D. Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry Harvard Medical School
ROBERT BORK still has some explaining to do. Senators last week engaged Bork in an orgy of constitutional nuance that must have left most viewers dazed and confused. This was a mistake. Because his views are so clear (despite his obfuscations under oath) and so representative of the jurisprudence of the New Right, the occasion of Bork's attempted elevation to the Supreme Court and all the hoopla surrounding it provided a unique opportunity for a long-overdue debate. There is an intimate connection between a people's legal system and the kind of people they are. Similarly, there...