Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...divestment activists arrested for occupying the office of a Harvard overseer entered a plea of not guilty at their arraignment in Boston Municipal Court yesterday morning...
Finger pointing and recriminations abound. Were the consequences of bringing an unenforceable indictment against a foreign leader seriously considered? Or the political embarrassment of plea bargaining with a thug? Why did Washington act before properly assessing Noriega's strength with the Panama Defense Forces (PDF) he commands? And why conduct a policy that was at once too public and too timid...
...early May, Abrams dispatched his deputy Michael Kozak to Panama for what amounted to a series of plea-bargaining negotiations. The U.S.'s final offer, approved by Reagan the Sunday before he left for the Moscow summit: if Noriega would leave Panama shortly after Aug. 12, the fifth anniversary of his taking office, he could return for the Christmas holidays and permanently after his country's 1989 presidential elections. Another sweetener was an offer of $90 million in American aid. Although Noriega was to ditch new President Manuel Solis Palma after the formation of a "national reconciliation" government, another henchman...
...administration that is willing to give General [Manuel] Noriega 120 days notice and a plea bargain ought to be willing to give the American worker 60 days notice before they are thrown out on the street," Dukakis said. He referred to a tentative deal to drop drug charges against the Panamanian strongman if he agrees to relinquish power and leave Panama by August...
What is troubling in his work is a moral ambiguity that verges on cynicism, coupled with a high-minded tone that verges on sanctimony. In The Untouchables he claimed the authority of history to invent a fictitiously murderous Eliot Ness and, worse, a guilty plea made for Al Capone by his attorney against the mobster's will. That is something that could not happen in any court still observing the fundamentals of the Constitution. In Speed-the-Plow Mamet makes the unastonishing revelation that movie moguls are venal and pandering. Perhaps he means to prick spectators' consciences by holding them...