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...rifle, he entered the back sorting room of the 1940s- style office and killed his supervisor and the labor arbitrator who had turned down his appeal for reinstatement. In all, he murdered four and wounded five others, fatally shooting himself in the head. The shooting spree prompted an urgent plea for blood donors throughout metropolitan Detroit...
Even if he thought his words under the heading of "Advice" constituted a plea, isn't page 123 a little too late, after he already outlined dozens of methods of suicide? If there was a warning, it should have been placed at the beginning of the book. He's not telling depressed people not to use the methodology in the book. I don't find it to be a warning...
While officials were sorting through Rogers' records, a federal prosecutor met last week with Adham in Cairo in what might be a first step toward a possible deal with the Justice Department. Adham's attorney, Washington lawyer Plato Cacheris, denied that a plea bargain was in the works and said his client has documents to prove his innocence. "I'm not trying to plead," said Cacheris...
...have matters improved since Yeltsin returned to Moscow three weeks ago. The situation that Rutskoi tried to phone him about, a movement to secede from the Russian Federation by the Chechen Ingush autonomous republic in the Caucasus, has blossomed into outright rebellion, and the secessionists last week defied a plea to lay down their arms. A much larger ethnic group in southern Russia, the Tatars, declared their region to be independent last week, and even some ethnic Russians in Siberia and the Far East are talking about setting up a breakaway republic...
Each of us gives what we can to help others, as soon as the plea is made. But as long as we are individually responsive to and not socially responsible for our problems, our national neurosis will continue, and things will only get worse...