Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Assembly hears many violent denunciations and endless bland defenses. Rarely does it hear an abject admission of guilt and plea for forgiveness. Last week Joaquin Balaguer, 54, the fragile, weak-willed intellectual whom Dictator Rafael Trujillo left behind as President of the Dominican Republic, traveled to Manhattan to plead guilty to his leader's crimes. "The barrier of silence has been lifted, said Balaguer. "After the death of the man who personified the Dominican state for 30 years, a new government has gradually been modeling its institutions according to the principles of representative democracy...
...address to the U.N. General Assembly. President Kennedy put forth still another U.S. offer to get started on planning for peace. This time the President picked up and took as his own the Soviet Union's perennial demand for "general and complete disarmament"-but backed up that sweeping plea with some specific proposals. Kennedy's steps toward disarmament included...
Finally, Bender made a plea for a Harvard with some students "who aren't brilliant or leaders, who are just plain, ordinary, decent uncomplicated human beings ... to provide a human scale in this community of superman...
Last week, in response, Kennedy's open door to the East slammed shut. U.S. offi cials announced that a proposed Tito visit to Washington was postponed indefinitely -as was action on Tito's latest request for more U.S. aid. The Administration also said that Poland's plea for more fiscal credits would be shelved. Then the Senate urged the President to withhold aid from any nation that shows little sympathy for U.S. policies...
...scheduled 5,000-marcher protest against German NATO Panzer divisions now training in Wales fizzled out: only 400 marchers appeared. British labor refused a C.N.D. plea for a two-day strike against the resumption of nuclear testing. More important was the effect on Britain's powerful Trades Union Congress, representing 8,000,000 workers, and the backbone of the Labor Party. A year ago the T.U.C. embarrassed Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell by voting a resolution urging Britain's unilateral nuclear disarmament. Meeting for the annual conference last week in the wake of Russia's new tests...