Word: reno
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...verdicts marked a victory for the Federal Government in its drive to prosecute members of a nationwide movement that seeks to give church sanctuary to Central American refugees who have entered the U.S. illegally. The outcome of the case, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Donald Reno, "is going to have a significant impact on those persons (in the movement) who were well intended but misguided...
...tactical triumph for the Government, Judge Earl Carroll barred all testimony on the religious and humanitarian motives behind the defendants' actions. Sanctuary lawyers nonetheless managed to slip several such references into testimony, and they plan to cite Carroll's ruling when they appeal the verdict. Prosecutor Reno, grandson of a Methodist preacher, faced some obstacles. He had the unenviable task of portraying as criminals a group of pious Good Samaritans (who held a prayer meeting after the jury announced its verdicts). One of the 15 Central Americans summoned to the stand by Reno, for instance, described a defendant...
...inconsistency of the Government's asylum policy to the jurors. The judge ruled that this was irrelevant. Earlier, he had banned any testimony about persecution in the refugees' home country or about the religious and humanitarian motives of the defendants in providing sanctuary. Assistant U.S. Attorney Donald Reno doggedly confined the prosecution's case to charges that the religious groups conspired to smuggle aliens into the U.S. and thus violated immigration laws. "These people are protesting against U.S. law," he said in his closing argument. "They have every right to do that, but they have no right to smuggle aliens...
...resorts and country houses as well as the tiny town of Guerneville. Said Guerneville Resident Mary Cervantes: "We've lost everything." Spreading out from California, the storms cut a haphazard trail of havoc. Mudslides that cut the main auto routes through the High Sierras stranded thousands of gamblers in Reno. In Utah rain deluged the low-lying areas and snows blanketed the mountains...
Jack's devious efforts to engineer that unlikely event (and stay within the movie's realistic frame) require some fairly desperate contrivances. But they alternate with grace notes, like a dinner at which Jack and Reno attempt to reconcile with their estranged wives while following the Monday-night football game. Williams' portrayal of a man disheveled but not defeated by history is first-class, and so is Russell's as a man chilled by the fear that his legend exceeds the truth. Theirs is a matchup worthy of instant replay...