Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead, look for constant repetition of this sequence: North's combative attorney, Brendan Sullivan, tries to introduce in evidence a secret document that supports his client's claim to have acted only under orders from higher authority or merely followed routine Administration policy regarding covert activity. Prosecutor John Keker, on behalf of independent counsel Lawrence Walsh, objects, arguing that release of the document would damage national security. Judge Gerhard Gesell sends the jury out of the courtroom and summons ) opposing counsel to a conference. Perhaps the issue can be resolved there, but quite possibly the trial is suspended while...
...clock was going "cuckoo" even before the trial began. Late last week defense, prosecution and judge were locked in a quarrel over material that Sullivan may want to use right off the bat. He claims that secret documents show that Ronald Reagan and other members of his Administration -- among them Secretary of State George Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, CIA Director William Casey and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General John Vessey -- "personally and directly" took part in arranging deals to have other countries aid the Nicaraguan contras at a time when help from...
Prosecutors insisted that disclosure of the documents would hurt national security. They offered to make available a summary of the documents, but Sullivan objected that it "omits critical details." On Friday, Gesell nonetheless accepted the prosecution's offer and, with that settled, designated Tuesday as the date for the trial to start. But the fracas exemplifies the kind of dispute that may interrupt the trial again and again...
...Breaststroke: 1. Lisa Sullivan, Pittsburgh, 1:04.70; 3.Mia Costello, HARVARD...
...doing his job as he understood it; he was doing his duty as he understood it," Sullivan said. "If he didn't, then there could be death resulting to the people he worked with and dangers resulting to the United States...