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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would expect a person on trial for murder in Russia to be told to shut up or else a muzzle would be placed on him and he would be chained to his chair. As an American citizen working overseas, I was appalled at the description of how Sirhan Sirhan was treated when he demanded to plead guilty and defend himself at his trial [March 7]. In "the land of liberty and justice for all," can a citizen sit still when a person is forced to accept lawyers he does not want and to be a mere pawn while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 21, 1969 | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...excellence and fearless scourge of the Red Baron. As the peerless pup's creator, Cartoonist Charles Schulz, stood at attention, they gave him a pair of gold wings and a picture of Snoopy in fighter-pilot gear. It was too bad that Snoopy could not be there in person, said Schulz. "He's on his way to the moon. The last time I heard from him, he was over Petaluma, and he told me, 'You can tell when I'm on my return because I'm facing the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 21, 1969 | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...least 1,500 capital cases in hometown Houston and other cities. By his own count, a mere 64 of his clients were sentenced to prison and only one was executed. That was a convicted killer named Steve Mitchell, who Foreman still insists was "as sweet and kind a person as ever lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lawyers: There Is No Better Than Me | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

Foreman is a man of bewildering contradictions. His personal charm, when he cares to exercise it, is overwhelming; yet he has been known to snarl at dilatory waitresses: "I get $200 an hour, and you have taken up $60 worth." In the courtroom, he would almost literally die for his clients; during conferences in their cells, he often cusses them up one side and down the other. With the well-heeled, he is merciless about fees. They must be paid in either cash or property (he owns numerous cars and houses turned over to him in fee settlements). However...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lawyers: There Is No Better Than Me | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...meantime, a million and a half person died. If we continue to do nothing, five million more persons may die before June. But we do not have to let this happen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Leaders Unite In Seeking Help For Biafra | 3/18/1969 | See Source »

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