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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dwight Eisenhower had less trouble with these impulses than any modern President. As one of the world's most renowned soldiers, he did not have to prove anything to himself or anybody else about his courage. He did go to Korea for a firsthand look at that messy war, but for the most part he avoided any public posturing. He did not go to Little Rock and lead black children through angry crowds, as some people wanted him to do in the nation's first school integration crisis. When his advance team ran into protests in Japan...
...defense was telling the prosecution the general lines of its strategy in the federal and state cases. Says Attorney Vincent Hallinan, the leader of the defense team: "We did something unusual, honest and straightforward. We put the whole defense before the prosecution stated what they were trying to prove." In an interview, Judge Carter said: "The average public doesn't believe one thing she says in that affidavit. But I, for one, intend to look at it and take it on an evidentiary basis...
...INSANITY. Even if Patty is found competent to stand trial, her lawyers could argue that her captors had driven her insane. Indeed, Vincent Hallinan said the defense would claim that she had been made "completely, absolutely, utterly insane by those who kidnaped her." Insanity, however, is difficult to prove, and Patty's behavior while on the run-and her recorded statements in jail-poses problems for the defense. What is more, Thomas Dean Matthews, 19, whom Patty and her companions are charged with kidnaping and holding for nearly twelve hours while on a robbery spree...
THREE: TEMPORARY INSANITY. This is exceedingly difficult to prove to skeptical juries: it usually seems much too convenient a dodge. But Patty's lawyers might try to argue that she was "brainwashed" into going along with the S.L.A. (see following story). Justice Department sources speak derisively of a possible brainwashing plea as the Manchurian Candidate defense, recalling the 1959 thriller. Federal investigators are confident that they have plenty of evidence to establish that Patty Hearst was acting...
...highly placed aide in the Spanish Cabinet: "It is a dilemma of conscience. The man in the street, your cook, your taxi driver, is very happy to see order restored. Killing police in the streets is intolerable. These people [the terrorists] are guilty, but we are failing to prove it to the outside...