Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Civil Liberties Union plans to assist in the defense of registration cases which are brought to trial, Landau said. "There isn't going to be a massive plea bargaining; this is going to be a long, drawn-out process if the Justice Department goes after a lot of people," he added...
...plea for calm was issued by the government in Walesa's name, but few Poles seemed to believe that he had authorized it. Informal cells of worried activists were forming in the capital. One such group was operating out of a bakery in downtown Warsaw. If any of the cell's dozen members failed to show up at least once every three days, the sales clerk was to alert one member, who would pass the word along...
Islambuli expressed no remorse for the assassination. Indeed, he said, "I am proud of it because the cause of religion was at stake." Nonetheless, his court-appointed attorney entered a plea of not guilty on the ground that Islambuli did not feel that he had committed a crime. Charged with murder are Islambuli and three other defendants alleged to have been on the hit team: an engineer, the owner of a bookshop, and a reserve army sergeant who had won an award for marksmanship. Also on trial were 20 other Muslim fundamentalists, who are charged in a 754-page indictment...
...Malice are the others), but the slick prosecutor of his earlier outings has here given way to a stammering humanism. The other is by Ken McMillan, the vulgarian of True Confessions and Ragtime, here playing a civilized judge agonizing over the rights and wrongs of Ken's plea for radical redress of a radical grievance. The integrity of their presences compensates for gaffes like a flashback that needlessly proves Ken had an erotic as well as an artistic life...
...lubed cube in 45 seconds. His royalties so far have totaled more than $100,000, but his father plans to salt most of that money away for his son's education and other future needs. Still, classmates at his Richmond school often greet the boy with the plea, "Can you lend me a fiver?" Bossert has just diversified his fledgling business by taping a half-hour video cassette that demonstrates his cube-twirling technique...