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...fourth case surfaced in Houston. Coral Eugene Watts, 28, a bus mechanic, was about to go to trial for burglary and attempted murder when authorities announced an unusual plea-bargain deal. In exchange for a 60-year sentence on the burglary charge, making him eligible for parole in 20 years, as he would have been had he received a life sentence for murder, Watts agreed to help clear up a string of unsolved weekend murders of women in Texas. By the end of last week, Watts had admitted to strangling or stabbing eleven women (his motive: women are "evil...
...Dinner and conversation are over, but Raquel cannot let go. A few days later she phones, eager to clear up possible misperceptions. She blames the press for many of the problems she has had trying to shed her role as sex goddess, and she wants to make a special plea for fairness. "I'm upstairs," she says into the telephone, somewhat breathlessly, "and even Andre doesn't know I'm calling you. I probably shouldn't call, but I think I've received a pretty bum rap from a lot of people...
...economic uncertainties increased despite the President's plea, in a TV press conference, for Americans to exert "enormous effort and patience" as, "slowly and surely, we're working our way back to prosperity." Reagan abandoned his cheery forecasts of the past. Still, he contended that "we're going to see an improvement in the second half of this year...
...Secretary of State, Edmund Muskie tucked a hand-penned message into Jimmy Carter's evening reading "to keep the personal touch." In secret deliberations when the tide seemed to be running against the interests of President Kennedy or Johnson, Secretary Dean Rusk often would scribble a short plea on note paper and slip it unobtrusively to the man beside him. The message: "Don't make a decision now, Mr. President. Let me see you later." Henry Kissinger had a pact with Gerald Ford to meet at least a half-hour every working day the two were...
...Best Defense paints a disturbingly accurate picture of elite corruption in the criminal justice system. Public defense lawyers. Dershowitz observes are often out to better statistics and to plea-bargain away their clients' cases for illusory victories. Others don't care at all about their clients, just their fees. Judges, many of whom are former prosecutors, often side with the state. And those lawyers skilled enough to offset those systemic biases are often too concerned about their reputations to defend a crook who's been villified by the press...