Word: plead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...festive partying and high spirits, Sirica presided solemnly in his fifth-floor courtroom in the beige U.S. Court House and served notice that he regarded the Watergate burglary as a far from simple matter. E. Howard Hunt Jr., sometime White House consultant, CIA agent and mystery novelist, offered to plead guilty to three of the six charges against him as one of the seven men arrested for the Watergate wiretapping-burglary. In this case, answered Sirica, the public would have to be assured that not only "the substance of justice" but also "the appearance of justice" was preserved. Also, because...
...intense Jewish concern for Israel than do liberal Protestants. Pope Paul VI, of course, can still be critical of Israel. Just two days before the Yom Kippur War, when he received a new Syrian ambassador to the Holy See, the Pope complained that "The Palestinian people, living miserably, plead that their right to self-determination be recognized." Last week Paul also expressed concern over the fate of Jerusalem's holy places-a thorny political and religious issue that will involve intra-Christian negotiations as well as talks between Arabs and Jews...
...Kissinger pressures Israel to remove some of its troops from the west bank, and there is no reciprocal action by the Egyptians, Israel will become increasingly fearful about the Geneva conference, where it must look solely to the U.S. for support. To plead Israel's case, Dayan flew to Washington last week. Is rael is very conscious of its diplomatic isolation, of the success with which the Arabs so far have wielded oil as a political weapon, and of the full backing the U.S.S.R. gives the Arabs. Moreover, Israel realizes it is further weakened by its domestic political disunity...
...former White House staffer. Dwight Chapin was indicted for having lied when he disclaimed any official connection with Donald H. Segretti, the convicted political saboteur. Chapin thus became the 18th man to be indicted on charges stemming from the Watergate affair and other scandals; Krogh was the twelfth to plead guilty or be convicted in the Watergate matter...
...motivation for Watergate. And they did not have a sensitivity to Constitutional principles or ethical standards which might have stopped them short. An administration which burgled and bugged the home of syndicated columnist Joseph Kraft and so many others with the approval of its highest officials can hardly plead that these same officials would recoil in shock from a proposal to wiretap Larry O'Brien...