Word: plea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letter bomb planted by anti-Soviet activists, an embassy watchman called in U.S. officials. Moore was later caught by FBI agents, who lured him into a trap baited with a fake payoff package ostensibly from the Soviets. Moore's attorney said his client may change his plea to innocent by reason of insanity, and produced a psychiatrist who told the court that Moore appeared to be paranoid and insane at the time he tried to peddle a CIA directory to the Soviets...
...Long Island homeowner heeded his President's plea to save energy-and discovered he would be taxed for his patriotic gesture. After watching his annual fuel bill soar to $700, William Nagy estimated he could save $250 using solar energy to heat his water...
...judge that he was competent to do the job. But in 1975 the Supreme Court held that the guaranteed right to counsel includes the defendant's right to be his own lawyer. Ruling in Faretta v. California, which concerned a man convicted of auto theft after his plea to defend himself had been denied, the high court said that Anthony Faretta should be retried and given the option of representing himself. Dissenting Justice Harry Blackmun grumbled that the ruling "bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself," alluding to the old proverb, "Anyone...
...narrow puritan ethic. As Ned ("Scooter") Ryan, Dzundza viscerally endows the prosecuting attorney with the instincts of a fox in a hen coop. Always grave and commanding in presence, Earle Hyman has to wait to the end of the play to deliver the doctor's passion ate plea for the right of a woman to terminate her own pregnancy...
...right hand of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. It was thought the Carter team would not accept a close Kissinger associate. But Eagleburger qualified (he coolly coordinated U.S. aid after Yugoslavia's 1963 earthquake, earning the nickname "Larry of Macedonia"), and Kissinger delivered a personal plea for Eagleburger's appointment to his successor, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance...