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While sources confirmed the outlines of the plea bargain, the deal remains unofficial until it receives approval from a U.S. judge in Manhattan this week. Among the lingering issues was the length of the jail term that Milken, 43, would receive. Although he could draw a maximum of 30 years, the Government was expected to recommend no more than a five-year sentence. Moreover, prosecutors were said to have agreed to drop charges against Milken's brother Lowell, a former Drexel executive...
...plea bargain capped months of rumors that the Government was ready to expand an indictment already laden with charges of racketeering, securities fraud and insider trading. Prosecutors had given Milken until last Friday to settle the case or face the new charges. Under terms of the agreement, Milken is to plead guilty only to securities-fraud violations, which carry lesser prison sentences than his earlier charges...
...calls for discipline in the urban black townships have been met by continuing terror from the young warlords who exert life-and-death power in those hopeless precincts. His appeal for children to return to school after a sporadic six-year boycott has been widely ignored. And his plea for the combatants in Natal to "take your guns, your knives and your pangas and throw them into the sea" was answered by even bloodier fighting in the rolling Zululand valleys...
Johnston and Mulligan made their plea at a news conference that marked the 3000th reported case of AIDS in Massachusetts...
...profile role that ordinarily would have been his. That led Harris to withdraw his request for a hearing, complaining he would never get a fair one from Deukmejian, who as a state legislator helped draft California's death-penalty law. The Governor has now agreed to hear a telephoned plea for clemency from Mother Teresa...