Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FORTY CARATS is a frothy farce from Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy, the team that wrote Cactus Flower. With Julie Harris as a middle-aged divorcee wooed by a lad of 22, the play enters a plea for a single standard of judgment on age disparity in marriage...
...assassin of Mar tin Luther King Jr. Foreman's way of doing that - to avoid having to argue be fore a jury against the damaging ev idence marshaled against James Earl Ray - was to make a deal with Prosecutor Phil M. Canale Jr. for a negotiated guilty plea. The result turned Ray's trial in Memphis into a formality that left unanswered questions of whether a conspiracy existed to murder King...
...course, all perfectly legal. Ray's lawyers, headed by Houston's redoubtable Percy Foreman (see THE LAW), were copping a plea. Foreman could muster no rebuttal of the evidence arrayed against his client. To allow Shelby County Attorney General Phil M. Canale Jr. to lay his case before a jury, Foreman reasoned, would, in effect, consign Ray to Tennessee's electric chair (which has not been used since 1960). Only Ray proved stubborn. Until only a few days before his trial, he still believed he would outwit the executioner...
...said Foreman, he would confine his activities to only a few civil suits. "I am 66 years old," he explained, "and I don't need money. So why should I expose myself to the agony of criminal cases?" Last week, however, after successfully copping a controversial plea for Ray, Foreman was obviously feeling perkier; he denied categorically that he had any notion of retiring from criminal practice...
Still, Nixon has given in to some special interests, particularly in the area of foreign trade. In a recent press conference, he made an impassioned plea for freer trade that disappointed high-tariff protectionists. The U.S., however, has pressured Europe's Common Market and Japan to impose "voluntary" quotas on steel exports, and Nixon has made clear that he favors similar quotas for textiles. Another threat to free trade comes from home builders and lumbermen, who want the U.S. to curb timber exports to Japan. Partly because of high Japanese demand for U.S. lumber, domestic prices have risen...