Word: belled
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Carter and Attorney General Griffin Bell hit on that solution after months of bargaining with Helms and his attorney, the celebrated Edward Bennett Williams...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Cultural Center is sponsoring the three-day event, which will include a soul food dinner, a semi-formal cabaret and an Earth, Wind and Fire rock concert, Stephanie Bell '79, organizer of the trip said yesterday...
...Bell said she hopes this will be the first step to increase communications between black organizations at the various Ivy League colleges...
...Bell and the Criminal Division of Justice settled for a compromise, hoping to provoke a storm that would blow over with the passing of a few weeks. They persuaded Helms to enter a plea of no contest to significantly reduced charges, thereby officially recording Helm's guilt without risking the disclosure of information in an open courtroom that could damage the country's national security interests. Or so the argument goes...
...unusual circumstances surrounded the disclosure of the resolution of the troublesome case. For one thing, Justice Department officials, in a departure from normal procedure, failed to notify reporters of Helms's day in court until after the former CIA director had entered the courtroom. Bell's post-mortems on the Helms affair informed reporters that he had first discussed the matter of a Helms plea bargain back on July 25 in an Oval Office meeting with Carter and assorted high-level administration officials. This statement is directly at odds with Carter's late September assertion that his knowledge...