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...offer came in response to a plea by Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci when the city's fist choice for the temporary classrooms, the Sacred Heart School in East Cambridge, came under opposition from members of the community who believe that the relocation would add to the congestion in that area...
...intervene with military force if necessary, arrest Smith and his "gang of illegitimates" and replace the white government with a British-led multiracial committee including representatives of the guerrilla factions as well as respected Rhodesian whites to prepare for one-man, one-vote elections. There was little hope his plea would be heeded, but his blunt language was a clear measure of widespread African frustration about how to deal with a country that, as TIME'S Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs found last week, seems increasingly out of touch with reality-and with itself...
...support for Amsterdam's view in the working experience of other mandatory sentencing laws. In 1970, first-degree murder in Pennsylvania carried a mandatory punishment of life imprisonment, but a team of researchers, led by University of Chicago Law Professor Franklin Zimring, reports in a forthcoming study that plea bargaining and lesser charges were regularly used to evade the law's intent, suggesting to the authors "that legislation prescribing mandatory capital punishment for premeditated or felony-murder would not be mandatory in effect." Supporters of mandatory executions answer that the new capital punishment laws do as well...
...Goods in Inglewood. Los Angeles County District Attorney John Van de Kamp plans a joint trial that will demand the most intense security since the Manson trial: spectators will be frisked and will watch the proceedings through a bulletproof partition. Nonetheless, Van de Kamp says he is open to plea bargaining by Patty's attorneys, but only if she pleads guilty to the armed robbery and kidnaping charges...
Woven through the allegations is a too-familiar pattern of the Washington buddy system that Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter have condemned all along the campaign trail. The official to whom Callaway took his plea for a reversal of the Forest Service ruling was J. Phil Campbell, a close friend and fellow Georgian; indeed Callaway had recommended him as Under Secretary of Agriculture. Campbell admits that he urged reconsideration of the Crested Butte expansion. The reversal followed. By strange coincidence, the key decision maker in the Forest Service's reversal of its earlier decision was Jimmy Wilkins...