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Harry Seigler, on trial in Richmond for robbery and murder, was sitting in a courthouse jail cell one afternoon last week, awaiting the jury's verdict. Charged with robbing a local insurance salesman last December and then slashing his throat, Seigler, 30, had pleaded not guilty...
...than ever he believes that they are why he is in government and that they are at the heart of what this nation craves: sound individual values, family solidity, strong neighborhoods, one nation under God. At the Air Force Academy graduation in May, he got a lump in his throat. The young people were going off with unrestrained joy to serve the nation. Their parents sent them with love and deep pride. This is no corny illusion in Bush's view. It is more of America than anything else...
...Administration's argument was already well known, however: the Soviet Union has the edge in nuclear superiority and a freeze would favor the enemy. "If we freeze now," declared Representative Henry Hyde, Republican of Illinois, "it's like freezing with their hands at our throat." If the Zablocki resolution passes, warned New York Republican Jack Kemp, "you can just tell the negotiators in Geneva to pack their bags and come home...
...National Assembly and read to the public, Royo declared that he could no longer carry out his responsibilities "due to health problems that make a checkup necessary." Shortly after his Vice President, Ricardo de la Espriella, 47, was sworn in as his successor, Royo explained that a "throat infection" had seriously hampered his ability to govern...
...stunning assertion Outspokenness has always been the hallmark of Dershowitz's style. In cases ranging from Harvard's controversial "Deep Throat" screening to the imprisonment of Soviet dissidents, he has loudly denounced violations of civil liberties, as if to re-assert personally the free expression denied his clients. He is, by now, no stranger to the front pages of the major dailies; his own book jacket notes that "he comments frequently on national television." Alan Dershowitz against media hype...