Word: plea
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Secord, appearing on ABC-TV's "Nightline" program called the indictments "crazy. There's going to be no plea. We're going to defend this case successfully, and I think the IC [independent counsel] is going to be looking very silly very soon...
...struggling to breathe, vomiting repeatedly because of her sedatives. "It was a gallows scene, a cruel mockery of her youth and unfulfilled potential," the resident wrote. Finally, Debbie managed to say to the resident, "Let's get this over with." The resident took her plea literally and injected a dose of morphine, "enough, I thought, to do the job." His "calculations" were correct; within minutes Debbie was dead...
Gorbachev, meanwhile, was striving for a peaceful solution. After sending four top-level troubleshooters to the region and issuing a public plea for restraint, the Soviet leader met secretly in the Kremlin with two well-known Armenian writers, Zori Balayan and Silva Kaputikyan. Gorbachev promised them that he would personally study the Armenian demands. As soon as that message was relayed to Yerevan, the protest leaders agreed to suspend the demonstrations for one month. In Nagorno-Karabakh, however, at least two Azerbaijani youths were killed in clashes with Armenians...
...Walsh said he agreed to the misdemeanor plea because of the former national security adviser's willingness to cooperate with Walsh's investigation and his "undisguised expressions of remorse after the false testimony...
Walsh called McFarlane's guilty plea a "very important" development in his 14-month investigation. In the coming weeks, the investigation is expected to yield a round of indictments against North and others, including Rear Adm. John M. Poindexter, who was McFarlane's successor as national security adviser...