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...conspiracy charge. Any one of them may be persuaded to testify against his co-conspirators in return for immunity from prosecution. In still another tactic familiar to prosecutors, conspiracy is sometimes added to other charges, to strengthen the prosecutor's hand in bargaining for a guilty plea...
...CRIMSON tacitly assumes that the antiquity of the custom of class-tree exercises is the only argument in its favor. The intense radical spirit at present prevailing here, which says that all that is old in ways and beliefs is consequently wrong, and whatever new, right, would condemn this plea of antiquity as worse than none, forgetting that change and improvement are not always synonymous terms, any more than antiquity and perfection are. The variety which Harvard Class Day furnishes in the way of entertainment is one of the pleasant features of the day, and the exercises at the tree...
...Plea for Reinforcements
...American soldiers. "Refugee" camps in the South are reportedly being prepared, camps similar to those where nearly six million Vietnamese already live, driven from their homes by "enforced urbanization." Such a forced migration is in clear violation of the Geneva Agreements of 1954, but legality is now only a plea of naivete in light of the invasions of Cambodia and Laos. Such a move, of course, would turn the Northern provinces into an area for saturation bombing and defoliation, thus militarily rendering the area useless as a base of support for the PRG and incidentally destroying the homes and lives...
...after all, it is against the law-the authors describe passing the stuff as just an exhilarating sport. By treating grass with such lightheartedness, the Crichton boys send a controversial message directly to a wide audience. Dealing, etc., is not really about a flip caper; it is a subliminal plea to legalize...