Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BOYLE Captain, U.S.N. (ret.) A.P.O., San Francisco Housemaid's Plea...
...Cooper's claim would not be that Sirhan was insane at the time of the shooting. Rather, as Cooper indicated, the defense would try to prove that because of mental or emotional illness, Sirhan lacked the malice or "specific intent" required for a first-degree conviction. Unlike a plea of insanity-which can lead to acquittal-the strategy has been used mainly to avoid execution. Thus, the defense in the Sirhan case may be willing to settle for a second-degree murder or manslaughter verdict, since neither of these charges carries the death penalty...
...planted, civil servants labor side by side with students, encouraged by the steady beat of the Brincos, the Latin Beatles, as it blasts from Radio Cordón. Habaneros repair to the Cordón for so-called "guerrilla weekends" of tackling weeds, in line with Fidel's plea for communal work and "true, fraternal, humane Communism." Dirty boots, rolled-up sleeves and talk of agriculture are marks of honor in today's Cuba, even in the cities. Dairy farms equipped with modern machinery have sprung up-Havana province alone has 25 under construction-and highly scientific livestock...
Snarl and Slowdown. For the year ahead, there is apprehension over the persistent paperwork backlog, which has snarled delivery of securities. Overruling a last-minute plea from the Securities and Exchange Commission to reconsider, the nation's stock exchanges decided to switch from Wednesday closings, in effect since June 12, to shorter hours. Five-day-a-week trading, with closings at 2 p.m. instead of 3:30 in New York, will resume this week. Some brokers share the SEC's fears that the most severe effects of the paperwork jam are yet to be felt. Industry leaders, however...
...bottom half of an exploitation bill at the Center. Paramount, the distributor, doesn't know how to handle the film--a realistic shocker about an All-American boy-turned-sniper on the rampage--and despite good reviews and box office on its initial theatrical engagements, they stuck a plea for gun control arbitrarily before the credits, then decided not to open the film at all. In the depths of his soul, film critic Bogdanovich probably doesn't care. After all, many films by his idols were mishandled by ignorant distributors--Hitchcock's The Trouble With Harry and Ford...