Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...openly for more personal reasons: they felt Begin had insulted President Reagan, first by not telling the whole truth when he said it was Israel's intention to limit its invasion of Lebanon to an area within 40 kilometers of the border, and then by ignoring Reagan's initial plea for a cease-fire as the tanks rumbled on to Beirut...
...prevent defendants from "graymailing" the Government with threats to disclose secret information. The law allows the presiding judge to determine what evidence is too sensitive to be admitted in court. Wilson, who was being held on $20 million bail in a Washington-area jail, refused to enter a plea at his arraignment hearing Friday. His attorney, John Keats, instead argued that he needed two weeks to investigate whether his client had been illegally apprehended. Judge John Pratt denied the request and entered a plea of not guilty on Wilson's behalf. Keats hinted that the Government might be greatly...
Thatcher was under far less pressure in Britain to search for a solution that would restore permanent peace to the South Atlantic. Opposition Leader Michael Foot renewed his standing plea that the government try once again to reach a negotiated settlement through the U.N. The most passionate argument against continued fighting came from Labor M.P. Leo Abse, who asked in Commons that Thatcher "stop playing at being a warrior queen...
Habre's victory was assured when Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi snubbed Goukouni's last-ditch plea for assistance. In 1980 Gaddafi dispatched 4,000 troops to N'Djamena to salvage Goukouni's regime. One year later, Goukouni asked Gaddafi to withdraw his forces in favor of a three-nation peacekeeping contingent sent by the Organization of African Unity. Gaddafi assented, apparently because he will begin a one-year stint as chairman of the O.A.U. in August and did not wish to give his peers any pretext to boycott his anointment...
...their Chinese companions, meanwhile, were quietly warned not to attend. In another school, an American student invited to dinner at the home of a Chinese classmate was asked to "come rather late and wear dark clothing so nobody will notice that a foreigner is coming to our house." The plea was understandable since Chinese who openly consort with foreigners know they will be visited soon afterward by Public Security agents demanding to know what the conversations were about...