Word: plea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trial for the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Although the 25-year-old law student freely admits to the murder, Judge Edmond Levy immediately granted the defense a recess until January 23 so the lawyers would have time to study the evidence, possibly to seek technical grounds for a plea of not guilty...
Despite Boris Yeltsin's impassioned last minute plea to the Russian people to stay the course with his market and democratic reforms rather than turn to Communists and right-wing nationalists, Russians overwhelmingly chose those candidates in Sunday's parliamentary elections. The Communists were the big winners, with 22 percent of the vote. Vladimir Zhirinovsky's nationalist party took a surprisingly strong second place, winning 11.2 percent of the votes with just under half the total reported. In the face of the surprisingly high voter turnout of 65 percent, a chastened Yeltsin spokesman said that the vote may cause...
...have no idea what the year is going to be like," she said. "Obviously this is a year of transition. We will focus on our relationship with Dean [Kidd] and how the administration will respond to our plea for autonomy...
...GUILTY PLEA ENTERED. By NICHOLAS LEESON, 28, former futures trader whose billion dollar losses brought down Barings investment bank; to fraud and forgery with the intention to commit fraud; in Singapore. The sentence: 6 1/2 years in prison: a Singaporean prison...
...1980s were frighteningly careless. Things were so bad, in fact, that federal agents raided the facility in 1989 and eventually shut it down. A grand jury later voted to indict plant operator Rockwell International for violating environmental laws. (Federal prosecutors and Rockwell agreed in the end to a plea bargain: the most serious charges were dropped, and the company paid an $18.5 million fine...