Word: plea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Said Ecevit last week: "Whatever our differences of opinion, everyone must do his best to call out to his own followers for peace." At week's end, Ecevit's countrymen seemed to be heeding that plea His government was not expected to topple-if only because no one else seemed to be willing to take on Ecevit's painful responsibilities...
...could see her boss. Moscone's press aide, Mel Wax, passed by, saw White and sent word that Horanzy and his family should wait in an outer office to avoid a collision with the disappointed former supervisor. Wax figured that White was making a last-minute plea to get his job back. Said Wax: "I didn't talk to him. I was worried that [Horanzy] and White would see each other and we'd have a scene...
Joining the Volscian commander Aufidius (Julian Glover), Coriolanus leads an army toward Rome, determined to burn the city. Only the heart-wrenching plea of his mother Volumnia (Maxine Audley) deters him, after which Aufidius slays...
Likewise with the holy writ on court reform. Contrary to public perception, most criminals end up getting caught; the courts, perhaps inexplicably, do a decent job of freeing the innocent and convicting and punishing the guilty. Such reforms as repeal of the exclusionary rule, prohibition of plea bargaining, mandatory prison terms, or standardized sentences are either harmful or irrelevant. What is needed is more attention to the appearance of justice--what Willard Hurst called "the substantive importance of procedure." The courts "will have to become models of fairness and due process--living demonstrations that justice is possible." The public...
...Percy had to use some $450,000 of his own money to fend off the challenge of Democrat Alex Seith, a lawyer who spent $750,000 of his and his wife's funds on his campaign. Running behind in the polls, the frightened Percy made a novel last-minute plea with TV ads saying that he had gotten the message all right. But he added: "If you don't vote for me, I won't be around to act on it." Enough voters rallied behind Percy to give him a 245,000-vote edge, but the margin did little...