Word: representive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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All that changed in 1967, as Kaminskaya recounts in an engrossing new book, Final Judgment (Simon & Schuster; $18.95). In that year she made the fateful decision to represent the Soviet Union's most outspoken dissident, Vladimir Bukovsky, who had been charged with organizing a demonstration in Moscow's...
Kaminskaya continued to represent dissidents during the next decade, thus falling deeper into official disfavor. Neither her logic nor her famed oratory proved sufficient to win an acquittal in a single political case. After being harassed by the Soviet secret police, Kaminskaya and her husband Konstantin Simis, also a lawyer...
Kaminskaya's most significant criminal case is both a lesson in unfamiliar Soviet legal procedure and a riveting mystery thriller. In 1967 the parents of a 16-year-old boy, Sasha, engaged her to represent him in a sensational case. Sasha and his pal Alik had been charged with...
Nevertheless, there are examples of behavior suggesting that animals can process information and make judgments. Gould points out that honey bees, fed sugar water that is gradually moved away from the hive, anticipate where the food will be placed. Seagulls break open shellfish by dropping them on hard surfaces, flying...
Litton Industries (1982 sales: $4.9 billion) now has the dubious honor of succeeding J.P. Stevens, the textile firm, as organized labor's favorite target. Last week representatives of six unions told a meeting of the House Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations that the giant high-tech conglomerate and defense...