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...struck by the fundamental inconsistency inherent in the position Agnew takes. In one breath he attacks the practice of "plea bargaining," under which he charges four witnesses against him in the Maryland grand jury proceeding were granted some form of immunity in exchange for their testimony, and in the next he attempts to justify his own plea of nolo contendere and acceptance of a slap-on-the-wrist sentence. This contrived arrangement represents plea bargaining at the highest level...
BILLED as a "Brazilian Spectacle," a celebration of South American peasant life, Ariano Suassuna's The Rogue's Trial is an often entertaining, somewhat uneven, quasi-insipid piece of theater. It is, we are informed as soon as the lights have dimmed, "a highly moral story," a plea for mercy. The high moral which the play espouses, however, turns out to be that regardless of what one does on earth, heaven is ultimately attainable. It is no wonder that the Brazilian government and coffee-growers have supported the production of the play...
This turnover of tapes, White House aides revealed, meant that the earlier offer to provide summaries of presidential tapes through Stennis to the Senate Watergate committee was dead. Senator Sam Ervin, who had come to realize that he had been lured into accepting the plan by a presidential plea to end the controversy because of the Middle East crisis, had been trying to get out of the plan and was not displeased...
Hunt's lawyers used the information when they filed for withdrawal of Hunt's guilty plea and dismissal of his indictment for the Watergate burglary. They claimed government misconduct in Hunt's prosecution because of the destruction of papers in his safe...
...Tulsa-based company is forced to pay off the $21.9 million claim against it before collecting at least as much from IBM, warned Telex Attorney Floyd L. Walker, "there is no way Telex can stay out of bankruptcy and become any kind of viable competitor." Walker's plea provoked a charitable response from IBM, which agreed not to press for the money until the case is finally decided...