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The Andromeda Strain (1971)
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USA 12 March 1971
UK 1 July 1971 (London) (premiere)
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Wednesday, July 10, 2002
Judge rules $1.9 million needed for Ridgway's defense
By Janet Burkitt
Seattle Times Snohomish County reporter
A King County Superior Court judge ruled today that lawyers for Gary Ridgway need the $1.9 million they want for Ridgway's legal defense.
Judge Richard Jones, who called the Metropolitan King County Council to court to explain why no decision had been made on the funding, did not order the council to approve the funding today, but said he expects to meet with council representatives after July 22, when the council is to consider the matter.
Mark Prothero, one of Ridgway's attorneys, said he was confident the council would approve the appropriation based on the judge's findings.
"I think the council understands now that the money needs to be appropriated," he said.
Jones had ordered Council Chairwoman Cynthia Sullivan or her representative to appear at today's hearing to explain the status of the funding request. Lawyers for Ridgway, who is charged with aggravated murder in four slayings attributed to the Green River killer, requested the hearing.
A spokesman for Council Chairwoman Cynthia Sullivan could not be reached immediately after the hearing.
Jones' order said the court had been informed "the King County Council has delayed taking any action and has not authorized the appropriation of these funds."
A lawyer for Sullivan, who was not at the hearing, suggested that the complexities and unusual circumstances surrounding the case may have slowed down the approval process. Attorney Marc Boman asked the judge to make a determination for the record that the council had not delayed the appropriation, which Jones said he would not do at this point.
Ridgway's four lawyers requested the money to add four more lawyers to his defense team, and to fund additional paralegals, investigators and data analysts.
A "special master" appointed to advise the court on defense expenditures already has determined the request is justified.
The special master, whose identity was ordered sealed, was chosen in part because of the person's knowledge of death-penalty cases.
The county Office of Public Defense sought the appointment of a special master in April because of the extraordinary nature of the case. The Green River Task Force is still investigating the deaths or disappearances of 49 women between 1982 and 1984.
Ridgway, who could face the death penalty if convicted, has pleaded not guilty to the four charges of murder.
The appointment of a special master was intended to ensure a neutral party would review funding requests and, to some extent, protect the county and the court from political debate over the case. But there has been considerable wrangling over the special master's role, as well as the $1.9 million funding request.
The defense team "is not critical of the council," said Michele Shaw, one of Ridgway's lawyers. "We know there's a lot of work going into the budget process."
"We felt it necessary to have Judge Jones intervene with the appropriation of funds," she said. "We just feel he will be able to clarify his intent (concerning) the appointment of a special master."
Last month, Dan Satterberg, chief of staff for King County Prosecuting Attorney Norm Maleng, told reporters Ridgway's lawyers weren't seeking a "Ford or a Chevy" defense but were asking for "the whole Porsche dealership."
Following those remarks, Ridgway's team sought a gag order to stop prosecutors from speaking out about the proposed defense costs and the process for allocating public funds.
Shaw argued Satterberg's comments were designed to influence County Council debate on paying for Ridgway's defense.
Jones denied the request but agreed it was offensive to compare Ridgway's defense to car types. He said prosecutors had come "dangerously close to misrepresentation of fact" when they said Ridgway's lawyers didn't need to investigate unsolved Green River cases.
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Nazi propaganda
Propaganda, the coordinated attempt to influence public opinion through the use of media, was skillfully used by the Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's leadership of Germany (1933–1945). Nazi propaganda provided a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power, and for the implementation of their policies, including the pursuit of total war and the extermination of millions of people in the Holocaust.
As to the methods to be employed, he explains:
"Propaganda must not investigate the truth objectively and, in so far as it is favourable to the other side, present it according to the theoretical rules of justice; yet it must present only that aspect of the truth which is favourable to its own side.
