Word: leniently
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...Kathy's been lenient on us and the fewer restrictions really helps," Tri-Captain Beth Chandler says. "It's a lot more fun. We can play without worrying about too many things...
...church folk in general, who clogged the Springfield switchboard with calls protesting the special treatment. After all, until church law was changed in 1973, a clergyman who made such a confession would have been expelled for two years, though most left for good. Even under today's more lenient rules, it is unprecedented for an Assemblies minister caught in a sex scandal to be barred from the pulpit for less than a year. Headquarters was also perturbed that the Louisiana district had announced its plan publicly rather than proposing it privately to Springfield. At week's end the national leadership...
Despite Moscow's more lenient attitude toward criticism, the Honecker % government has tried to keep its youth under firm control by suppressing demonstrations and confiscating printing equipment. Leaders on both sides of the Berlin Wall are concerned over the growing ranks of those protesting the January arrests. Honecker, who has taken pains to show that his country is improving its human rights stance, wants to avoid hostile international publicity. West Germany, for its part, wants to preserve relatively friendly bilateral relations. East German Lawyer Wolfgang Vogel, an experienced East- West negotiator, met last week with Ludwig Rehlinger, the West German...
...guilty of the rioting charges lodged against them, all pleaded innocent. They were herded out of court and back to a makeshift detention center in the nearby village of Dahariya to await trial. In another courtroom, in the city of Nablus, an army prosecutor urged the judge to be lenient with Nasser Zuhadi Kakmeh, 16, because the youth had been wounded in the leg while throwing stones and bottles at security forces and was now repentant. "I want to hear it from you," the judge told the defendant. After a long pause, Kakmeh replied, "I regret what...
Despite her anguish, Pierson never once sought help from any adult. Prosecutor Edward Jablonski and others are worried that sentences as lenient as Pierson's might prompt other abused children to seek revenge. More frightening is the possibility that some unbalanced children may use alleged abuse as a pretext for killing their parents. Says Judge Vincent J. Femia of Upper Marlboro, Md., who has handled several parricide cases: "In effect, the defendant can argue that he did something that should have been done for the community...