Word: plead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could have charged the four students indicted for sabotage with destruction of federal property instead. (It charged one student with both-the threat of a thirty-year sentence caused him to plead guilty to destruction of federal property, which carries a ten-year maximum.) Sabotage, after all, implies a threat to national security-and carries a commensurate penalty. The students in St. Louis did not constitute such a threat...
Because of "ignorant" judges and jurors, and lawyers who urge their clients to plead guilty to crimes they did not commit, Garry said. 60 million minority Americans "do not get any form or semblance of justice...
...Dispatches from Vientiance reported intensified Communist pressure against Long Chen, the center of U. S. Central Intelligence activities in Laos. Gen, Vang Pao, leader of the CIA-supported Meo tribesmen, flew to Vientiane to plead for reinforcements and more U. S. tactical air support...
Nixon also dispatched Vice President Spiro Agnew last week to plead with county commissioners, mayors and other politicians in Atlanta and Kansas City. In Kansas City, Agnew assailed those who fear that local governments cannot be trusted with unrestricted federal funds. Said he: "I don't think there is any more likelihood of a local official being corrupted than there is of a Congressman being corrupted." Nixon is also organizing 20 touring panels-three Republican Congressmen each-to plead for his program. They are being called "Drummers for the New Revolution...
...British Commonwealth meant tea at Buckingham Palace and gracefully informal get-togethers in mahogany-paneled London offices. No longer. Last week, when the 31 regular members of that unique order gathered for their 18th formal conference, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, the host, had to plead with his colleagues to be polite to each other, "if only coldly...