Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the Reagan doctrine is to fight for freedom. Why is the doctrine being denied in Pretoria?" Other reaction on Capitol Hill ranged along a narrow spectrum from outrage to disappointment; virtually no one from either party came to the President's side. Democrats generally saw Reagan as the victim of moral myopia and of enlisting on the wrong side of history. Said Democratic Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa: "President Reagan abandoned any pretense of providing moral leadership...
...fakir's apprentice, wrapping the string around his nose and chewing it like a licorice stick. Undaunted by baleful stares from his mother and grandmother, he pulled out his miniature ceremonial dagger and began poking holes in the dress of Diana's niece Laura Fellowes, 6. When his victim wagged a finger of rebuke, the second in line to the British throne trumped her with a silent, but definitive Bronx cheer...
...half-century and only the eleventh in history. The vote in the House was unanimous: 406 to 0. Convicted of tax evasion in 1984 and sentenced to two years in prison, Claiborne, 69, has refused to resign from the bench because he contends that he was a victim of government harassment. He intends to fight his ouster when the Senate hears the case in September. In the meantime, he continues to draw his $78,700-a- year salary...
...have been a convenient justification for government action -- or inaction. Though the Georgia homosexual was never prosecuted, he challenged the convenient tradition itself by claiming that the constitutional right to privacy applied to him as well as to anyone else. There had, after all, been no children involved, no victim of any kind, no coercion, no public misbehavior. In such circumstances, doesn't a free citizen have a right to do as he pleases? One can sense a certain irritation over such a "gay rights" claim in the brusque rejection by Justice White. It is, said White, "at best, facetious...
...former client, meanwhile, may have plenty of time to ponder what might have been the wisest trial strategy. Earlier this year, Sanborn was convicted and sentenced to life, after a fifth court-appointed attorney put him on the stand to testify that he was not the man the victim's mother had seen at the murder scene. Sanborn's fate will strike many legal observers as unsurprising. Says Berkeley's Johnson: "A defendant who cannot convince his own attorney is unlikely to be a very persuasive witness...