Word: plea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attempts to assassinate President Ford moved Father Richard Engle of St. Philip the Apostle Roman Catholic Church in Columbus, Ohio, to deliver an impassioned plea. He urged all parishioners who owned handguns to turn them in to the church the following Sun day. While police stood by, twelve hand guns, 16 starter pistols and 20 toy weapons were turned in during the Sunday Masses on Oct. 12. The metal was melted down and made into crosses...
...crisis deepened, Beame made an urgent, last-ditch attempt to persuade President Ford to end his adamant opposition to a federal loan guarantee or any other help for New York. Earlier in the week, city officials had been cheered by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller's plea for swift congressional action to "avoid catastrophe." Despite White House denials, New Yorkers interpreted the Vice President's statement as meaning that Ford was relenting. In fact, Rocky and Ford were sharply and openly split on the issue, and White House aides were furious at the Vice President...
...first case that Bailey will defend probably will be the federal charge that Patty took part in the armed robbery of the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco. So far, at least, he has shown no signs that he will urge Patty to cop a plea - testify against her Symbionese Liberation Army comrades in an effort to get off easily. Bailey says he will argue that the Hibernia Bank case was "a matter of simple coercion" - that Patty was forced to take part in the robbery by her companions. One problem he will have to explain away is the taped message...
Bunge suffered only a light penalty: the federal district court in New Orleans fined it $20,000. As part of an unusual plea-bargaining arrangement, Bunge agreed to allot $2 million to $3 million of its own money over a three-year period to hire more inspectors for its elevators, and pay for additional auditors, independent certified public accountants and an outside compliance consultant. U.S. Attorney Gerald J. Gallinghouse called the Bunge program one of "the most important steps that can be taken toward cleaning up the crime in the grain industry...
Insofar as this cobwebby evening possesses any dramatic impact, it is in the display of grace, or disgrace, under pressure. Some witnesses are wily, some cringe, some babble to save themselves in a variety of plea bargaining, some show valor. It is honorable that Arthur Miller will incriminate no one but him self and that Lillian Hellman's credo is, "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions." But that does not automatically brand the men who confessed and "named names" as mor al lepers. When Stalin has been your...