Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This then is a plea to Americans: your opinions matter. Please believe that the romantic dream of reunification is a tragic compelling nightmare, being played out in my countrymen's lives. Feed it neither with your encouragement, nor your money. Peace is never bought so cheaply...
Nesson moderated programs on punishment of criminals, the insanity plea and a defendant's right to a fair trial...
Last month Judge Leval rejected CBS's plea for total immunity and sent the case to the jury. Leval agreed that Westmoreland could not prove recklessness by CBS, since 60 Minutes had interviewed so many people. But the judge ruled that if, as Westmoreland claims, CBS edited tapes to twist quotes out of context and ignored facts that conflicted with its conclusions, then CBS could be held liable for knowing disregard of the truth...
With Gromyko, however, Mondale said he stressed that Reagan spoke for all Americans in negotiating with Moscow. After their 90-minute meeting at the Soviet Mission to the U.N., Mondale reported. "My plea to Mr. Gromyko was to look past tensions, rhetoric, previous positions, whatever complaints and grievances they had and give this [the negotiations] a chance ... I did what I could to create a hopeful atmosphere [and] I do believe that there is an opportunity... to make significant progress." But Mondale did not fully explain what Gromyko had said to justify that belief. He paraphrased Gromyko as complaining that...
...fiancé with arsenic. Margie Velma Barfield, 51, a onetime private nurse, also confessed to poisoning her mother and two elderly patients in her care. When North Carolina's Democratic Governor James Hunt, who is challenging conservative Republican Jesse Helms for his Senate seat, rejected Barfield's plea for clemency last week, his decision added emotionally charged elements to an already close, tense race...