Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...federal prisons at Leavenworth and Sandstone, Minn., Billie Sol, 42, returned to the dusty courthouse in Tyler, Texas, and found that the state was willing to ease up on him. In a 45-minute, no-witness hearing, District Judge J. P. Power accepted cheerful Billie's "no contest" plea, handed him a dainty three-year sentence that will run concurrently with the federal rap and make him eligible for parole...
Initiated by Idaho Democrat Frank Church and signed by 14 Democrats and two Republicans,* the statement warned that with the conflict entering a "critical juncture, it would be tragic indeed if there were any misconception in Hanoi about the realities of the political situation in the U.S." Entitled "A Plea for Realism," the document noted that "there are no doubt many citizens of the U.S. who share our expressed misgivings about the growing American involvement in Viet Nam. But there are many more who either give their full endorsement to our Government's policy in Viet...
...prelates politely thanked him for his "useful" suggestions - but otherwise ignored them. They may not have realized that the King's plea was inspired by his personal chaplain, Archiman drite* Ieronymos Kotsonis. Last week indications were that the royal recommendations would finally get some action. Ex-Chaplain leronymos, 61, was installed as the 17th Primate of the Orthodox Church in Greece...
...blunt Nasser's thrust, King Hussein of Jordan went to Teheran last week for talks with the Shah of Iran. This week King Feisal, the leader of the more moderate Arab regimes, goes to London to make a plea for more arms aid. "We are obliged, however reluctantly, to defend ourselves," says Feisal, whose country is also infiltrated with pro-Nasser terrorists and has been bombed by Egyptian planes. The British are helping Feisal strengthen his army and build an air defense system. In London, he is expected to ask the British to refrain for the moment from giving...
...worked; Johnson found that the 1957 rights law authorized suits only against "persons." When the registrars resigned, there were no persons left to act against. The Justice Department could not sue the Governor, since he does not exercise direct control of registrars; Johnson therefore had to refuse an injunction plea against "the registrars of Macon County...