Word: witnesse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The silence is over. The cameras are in place, the microphones tuned, the TV networks willing, even eager, to drop their soap operas and go live to Capitol Hill. Investigators are armed with several cartons of papers turned over last week by the witness to guide their questioning. This week...
"It was," Linda Brown Smith observed, "almost like Dad was still here, and I was reliving his days in court." Back in 1951, when she was a chubby third- grader in an all-black school, her father, Oliver Brown, was the name plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, the...
But monuments, too, can require renovation. Witness the perennial stalemates between Congress and the President. The weakening of party allegiance among voters has meant that only three postwar Presidents have enjoyed four years in which their own party has controlled both houses of Congress. When the White House and Capitol...
North's surprising maneuver left committee members angered and baffled about the Marine's underlying purpose. Did he hope to put off testifying until he had the advantage of knowing what would be said by his former boss, ex- National Security Adviser John Poindexter, who is due up as a...
Like certain Amish and Mennonite groups, Jehovah's Witnesses practice shunning: believers are required to treat as pariahs those who have been ousted from the sect. Since 1981 those who leave voluntarily have also been ostracized, even by close relatives. Janice Paul of Anchorage, a former Witness who was shunned...