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...minority platform planks ?against busing, against a school-prayer amendment, against a plea for capital punishment, against a crackdown on welfare eligibility...
Sprague recalls: "She said she would trade her life for a guilty plea. But in her own mind she had determined she would trade us as little as possible. Her initial confession didn't lead anywhere." Sprague booked her into a hotel and began a series of lie-detector sessions that lasted eight days. "The thing that was difficult," says Sprague, "was that she wasn't lying. She was just withholding information. That is an extremely hard thing to get from the polygraph...
...with God." The Patriarch's death was especially poignant because the congress was celebrating a "Double Jubilee," Athenagoras' 50th year as a bishop and the 50th anniversary of the American archdiocese. The congress immediately adjourned in mourning, but it had already heard the most important message-a plea from Iakovos for Greek Orthodoxy in the Americas to take on a heroic new spiritual tone...
...legal battle continued, and charges were exchanged. On March 2 the battle ended; the Middlesex Superior Court denied Cronin's plea for a preliminary injunction against further picketing...
...recognized a number of the signatories to this plea for amnesty and nearly all of them are beneficiaries of financial and from Harvard. Currently perhaps is per cent of Harvard's scholarship grants are expended on Negro students who comprise 6 per cent of Harvard students...