Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from $32 down." Most of his operating costs are covered by $10 and $20 contributions, which he acknowledges individually on the air ("My thanks today to Beverly, to Topsfield, to Rockport . . . And now let's get back to the music"). Fishermen flipping the dial pause to marvel at a plea for contributions by a local voice, so familiar and yet so strange; they often stay on to sample Mozart or Bach. Guy Wonson, a stonemason, started listening in 1968. He got a kick out of the commercials at first, but the music gradually insinuated itself. Now he sometimes listens while...
...apparently will be the harshest meted out to any member of the spy ring. John Walker's brother Arthur, a former Navy lieutenant commander, has been sentenced to three life terms (parole eligibility: ten years). John and his son Michael are to be sentenced soon. Under terms of a plea bargain that they struck in return for providing information, John is due to get life (parole eligibility: ten years), and Michael 25 years (parole eligibility: eight years and four months). The Government justified the severity of Whitworth's punishment by contending that he was the "principal agent of collection...
...plea is simple: Tell the companies to getout of South Africa, and if they won't get out,then we'll get out of the companies," History ofScience Professor Everett I. Mendelsohn told thecrowd. As many colleges and cities--includingBoston and Cambridge--have already divested,"leadership is no longer up to us; at most, we canhope not to be the very last to pull out of SouthAfrica," Mendelsohn said...
...This is Len Bias . . . There's no way he can die. Seriously, sir, please come quick." That was Brian Tribble's desperate plea to a 911 operator as his friend, University of Maryland Basketball Star Len Bias, lay dying of cocaine intoxication in his dormitory on June 19. Last week Tribble surrendered to authorities after a grand jury indicted him on narcotics charges that included possession of cocaine with intent to distribute the drug. Tribble, 24, a former Maryland junior-varsity basketball player, is suspected of providing Bias with the coke that killed...
...turned out to be John MacDougall, 25, a part-time engineer at a satellite transmission facility in Ocala, Fla., and owner of a home-dish dealership whose business had been hurt by scrambling. MacDougall pleaded guilty to the unauthorized transmission of an interfering signal. If a plea- bargain arrangement is accepted, he will be fined $5,000 and sentenced to one year of probation. In a statement, MacDougall said he took the action to "focus public attention on a problem that affects millions of Americans." But he acknowledged, "In retrospect, I realize the means I used may not have been...