Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plea for Sanity." Plainly, Hanoi hopes that by punishing Americans it would help dampen U.S. determination to prosecute the war - or at least discourage continued bombing. Actually, the effect would certainly be precisely the opposite, inflaming the American public and all but eliminating the domes tic dissension that Ho Chi Minh interprets as evidence that the U.S. will pull out of Viet Nam. Indeed, warned Georgia's Richard B. Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, executions of American pilots would "bring about the application of power that will make a desert of their country...
Neustadt, who served as an advisor to President Kennedy, issued the statement with David Ginsberg, a Washington lawyer who was also a member of the board. Senator Wayne Morse (D.Ore.), who chaired the investigation, made a similar plea Friday...
...instead of a celebrity, she finally had a heart-to-heart chat with Robin. Three of the Secret Service men were peeled off, and it was decided to keep her plans a little more guarded from the press, particularly the photographers, whom Senorita L.B.J. dismissed one night with the plea: "No mas! No more!" Turning down a Spanish air force offer to put a DC-3 at her disposal, she decided to travel by unmarked auto, train or commercial plane...
...wife and his two daughters went on TV with a tearful plea for him to come home. Through a telephone interview with a Sydney editor, even the Tunku made a personal appeal from Kuala Lumpur: "Come back, my dear friend, and I will welcome you. I will be happy to let bygones be bygones." To "supervise the search," the Tunku even sent Malaysia's chief of protocol, Enche Abdul Rahman Jallal, rushing to the scene. Upon arrival, he surprised newsmen with his theory that Lim Yew Hock had perhaps "tripped on a stone, and is now being cared...
Propriety & Practice. It may well be, Weinfeld concluded, that "voluntary, as distinguished from coercive, bargaining between the prosecutor and the defendant has been sanctioned by propriety and practice." But he drew a sharp distinction between such deals and "plea-bargaining between the judge and the accused...