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Clearly, no mandate was issued at the polls-only a muted sigh, a harried plea for deliverance from angry shouts and hollow promises. The post-election confusion and lingering bitterness can only impede efforts toward the real goal: effective government of and for the American people. In an election where one is hard-pressed to find a loser, perhaps we have overlooked the electorate...
...Escape. The charges are first-and second-degree murder. The defense does not question that Garland killed the four but contends that he went to Stonehead Manor with the intention of bringing his daughter home. When the gun accidentally discharged, Garland went berserk and shot the others. The plea is temporary insanity...
...defendants have been attempting, within the limits set by Judge Burke and the larger legal-political system, to cut through all of the legal jargon and the physical and psychological control of authority in the court-room. When they refused to enter any plea at their arraignment, Judge Burke entered not guilty pleas for all eight of them. Seven of the eight are conducting their own defense. Their message is a relatively simple one-to open to the judge, the jury, to those in the courtroom and to those beyond, the facts of their lives which led them to feel...
...Moore, and he testified about the damage done in the office of the FBI. Under cross-examination, Suzi Williams pushed him hard about possible FBI investigation into an August 26 National Women's Day demonstration in Rochester, and about FBI surveillance of Radical Women's Groups in general. His plea of "sensitivity" and "national security" to Judge Burke was finally upheld, but ten minutes of dodging Suzi's questions left small room for doubt that Women's Liberation has special significance for Mr. Hoover's investigators...
...poor children's programming. Something clicked in Lloyd's mind: TV and preschoolers. Was I interested?" She was, fanaticallyand shrewdly. By November, her report was submitted with the recommendation: "Spend a lot of money on this." It was hardly the first occasion that funders had heard such a plea. But it was the first time they had ever met a persuader of Mrs. Cooney's talents. By the time she was through, her Children's Television Workshop had been granted $8,000,000 by the Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation, the U.S. Office of Education, and related Government agencies...