Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, when newspapers learned of Buber's plea for mercy, public reaction in Israel was overwhelmingly against him. Indirectly, Ben-Gurion gave a public answer to Buber. As the Israeli Supreme Court prepared to consider Eichmann's own appeal before handing down a verdict, the official government gazette published a regulation authorizing the appointment of "a man to execute a death sentence...
Passing on an appeal from a West German political prisoner who claimed to have been "unfairly and wrongly" convicted by her countrymen in a 1951 war crimes trial, members of the European Commission on Human Rights not only rejected the plea but also damned it as a "manifest abuse" of their time. The appel lant: Lifer Use Koch, 54, better known during World War II as the "Bitch of Buchenwald...
...general, however, his plea that "preoccupation with information should give way to popularization of the objectives, the method, and the spirit of science" seems sound and well-advised...
...fiscal year (beginning July 1) to develop three prototypes of the bomber. McNamara reasons that missiles like the Minuteman are the weapons of the future, not manned bombers. But General Curtis LeMay, the Air Force's tough Chief of Staff and an old bomber pilot, made a strong plea to Vinson's committee for rapid development of the full RS-70 weapons system...
Mocking Scotland Yard's frantic efforts to capture him, Alfie sent memorandums protesting his innocence to English M.P.s, granted press interviews, even got a tape recording of his plea on TV. Since he was last restored to custody, in 1960, Alfie has fought for his liberty before the high est courts in the land. Last week, after dismissal of his 13th and probably final appeal, all England waited for his next escape. He had already notified Lord Justice Sellers: "I am not going to re main in prison. It would be very hard for me to leave again...