Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...judges actually allowed thousands of dangerously drunk drivers arrested for the first time to plea bargain their way out of any punishment...
...closed the door to a dialogue," and Secretary of State George Shultz indicated last week that chances for opening talks now were nil. "If Cuba changes its behavior, fine," he told the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "But Cuba is not likely to do that in response to some general plea from...
Finally, the terrorists turned their political demands into a simple plea for safe conduct to Albania or China, and a $1.4 million ransom. The Swiss government immediately rejected that idea. Warsaw offered to send in its own antiterrorist squad to help the Bern police, but the Swiss firmly refused. Then the Swiss police made their move...
...French agent " accidentally" jostled Goma's arm, spilling the poison. Since Haiducu could not fail on his second mission, the attack on Tanase had to be even more convincing. This time French operatives played the part of hired thugs and faked a kidnaping. Mitterrand's press-conference plea added the crowning touch...
...charges might have been a good deal worse for the Congressman, multimillionaire founder of Walco, maker of products ranging from motors to coffins. In exchange for his guilty plea, the Justice Department agreed not to prosecute Richmond for an array of other possible crimes, including ordering his staff to buy him cocaine, receiving an ille gal $100,000 annual pension from Walco and helping find a job as a mailroom clerk in the House for Earl Randolph, a fugitive who had been serving an 18-year term for aggravated assault in Massachusetts. After leaving the House job, Randolph was arrested...