Word: plea
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...against obscene rock lyrics. First Lady Hillary Clinton has made frequent, if muted, denunciations of media vulgarity, and now seems to be turning up the volume, most recently in her appearance on Oprah. And sandwiched into Bill Clinton's long State of the Union message in January was a plea to Hollywood "to assess the impact of your work and to understand the damage that comes from the incessant, repetitive, mindless violence and irresponsible conduct that permeates our media all the time...
Despite a House vote Thursday to lift the Bosnia arms embargo and a personal plea from the Bosnian prime minister in Washington today, the White House said President Clinton would promptly veto the measure if it reached his desk. "We don't believe the answer to the conflict in Bosnia is to escalate the war," said White House spokesman Mike McCurry. The Administration believes that lifting the embargo would anger France, Britain and other countries with peacekeeping troops in the region, andtrigger a commitment of 25,000 American troopsto helpevacuate the peacekeepersand protect the Muslims from a predicted new Serbian...
Pretty bleak stuff. "The Human Foul" crack was a cry for help, a plea for attention that went unheeded. As time passed, my glasses turned to jade...
...former aide to President Clinton during his tenure as Arkansas governor today pleaded guilty in theWhitewater investigationto charges of misusing a $65,000 federally backed small-business loan. Stephen Smith, also a business partner of newly-indicted Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker , plea-bargained for a misdemeanor charge and promised to cooperate with Whitewater investigators. "Smith was a lot closer to Clinton that Jim Guy Tucker ever was," saysTIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. Worse for Clinton, Ratan says, the Smith and Tucker indictments suggest that prosecutors find credence in the related story of Little Rock judge David Hale...
What's happening may mean there are no second acts for sexual scandals in America -- which holds out some hope for Senator Bob Packwood, whose ethics case for sexual misconduct entered Phase 2 last week. (The first phase ended with his unsuccessful televised plea from the well of the Senate to keep his diary secret.) When Gennifer Flowers first dished the sexual dirt during the 1992 campaign, talk shows tripped over one another to have her on, and CNN covered her press conference live with all the solemnity of a Gulf War update. Then, hordes of reporters were panting...