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Capano's trial had drawn national attention because he was a member of the Delaware elite and because, contrary to his attorneys' advice, he took the stand and confessed to getting rid of the victim's body but asserted that another of his ex-mistresses had committed the murder.
Hard-liners, suspicious of U.S. ideological influence, asserted themselves in March 1996, when missile tests in the Straits of Taiwan were timed to intimidate Taiwan's politicians and electorate as the country held its first direct elections to the presidency.
Martin Luther King, whose memory Americans celebrate today, once asserted: 'On truth there can be no ambiguity, on justice no compromise.
Martin Haskell, the Ohio doctor who developed the procedure, asserted in one paper that 80 percent of his patients choose it because it is safer and more convenient than the alternatives.
Indeed, it has even been asserted that vertical evolutionary patterns of descent might be impossibly masked by rampant events of LGT and that, in fact, instead of bifurcating phylogenetic trees, a reticulate (net-like) pattern exists [ 7, 8, 9].