Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last Plea. Vice Premier Belkacem Krim of the Moslem F.L.N. flew in from his headquarters in Tunis to confer with members of the Provisional Government at Le Rocher Noir, the administrative center near Algiers. If anyone could talk to the killers and terrorists of the S.A.O. it was Krim, who had last appeared in Algeria in 1957 as a leader of the F.L.N. underground, which was spreading death and destruction among the Europeans. The S.A.O. had sworn never to allow an F.L.N. leader to enter Algeria alive, but the rightist newspaper L'Anrore hailed his presence and the prospect...
...twelve continued their treeks to the athletic grounds, but they complained about it. "There is no reason why climate-harrassed throats shoul be further insulted by the steady cloud of dust and filth that rises from the pavement on the way to Soldiers' Field," they grumbled, and issued a plea for "the effective use of an oil-cart on the street near the field...
Winging from town to town in a Cessna, Yarborough assailed Connally as ''a confessed lobbyist for Eastern oil and gas monopolies, nursed in the smoke-filled room and weaned on the big lie technique." One such "lie," declared Yarborough, was Connally's press-conference plea at the 1960 Democratic Convention for delegates to vote for Johnson because Jack Kennedy suffered from "a death-dealing disease." Conflicting religious rumors about Connally were widespread: 1) he had quit as President Kennedy's Navy Secretary because he is anti-Catholic; 2) he is a Catholic himself. (Connally...
...Nazi mass murder of 6,000,000 Jews, his appeal of the verdict was considered for nine weeks by the Israeli Supreme Court, and then denied, with the remark that even death was not an adequate penalty for Eichmann. As a last recourse, Eichmann made a personal plea for clemency to Israel's President Izhak Ben-Zvi. Within 34 hours a prison commissioner told Eichmann that his plea had been rejected. He grimaced slightly, said, "Jawohl...
After five days of violence, Mrs. Sinclair bowed to a plea from the Johannesburg city council that at least the night vigils be stopped. That evening, inside the city hall, Composer Igor Stravinsky was conducting the South African Broadcasting Corp.'s symphony orchestra in the first of five concerts for whites only (a sixth was reserved for blacks). Stravinsky had asked that seating be integrated, but the broadcasting authorities coldly refused. The maestro's opinion: "Music takes precedence over politics. I don't think about these things because it is outside my competence. I have so many...