Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under orders from the Ohio Supreme Court, Nadel reluctantly made public the 225-page investigative report to Giamatti prepared by John Dowd, a former U.S. Justice Department attorney. Dowd's case is somewhat weakened because it depends heavily on the testimony of Ron Peters and Paul Janszen, two convicted felons. But Dowd insisted that their stories were corroborated by other witnesses, by tape recordings, by records of Rose's telephone calls and, most important, by betting sheets that a retired FBI expert judged to be in Rose's handwriting. Rose said he could not identify them...
Those who believe that Ochoa's public humiliation was part of a politically inspired housecleaning were handed some potent ammunition last week: the firing of Cuba's Interior Minister, General Jose Abrantes, for the "great deficiency" of failing to uncover Ochoa's drug operation. It is possible that there are more firings to come. But an editorial signed by Castro stated that Abrantes was taking an inevitable rap for the corruption that transpired on his watch. In recent months the Interior Ministry has fallen into disfavor for not halting a sharp rise in crime and official corruption...
During the Vietnam War, the people believed they could affect change. They campaigned, marched, held sit-ins and protests and pickets, convinced that America's democracy could not help but respond to this showing of public opinion...
...anti-choice forces are in a position of strength now. Not because more of the public supports them, but because they have the secure knowledge that the president and the Court support them...
...choice forces lay claim to a huge silent majority of America's public. Unfortunately, that silence in successive presidential elections has stacked the Supreme Court so that the overturning of Roe v. Wade is virtually assured...