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...would think that the Elis would plead nolo contendere before daring to challenge Radcliffe again. The two crews have already met twice this season. Radcliffe defeated the Blue by a scant two seats in its season opener, and then trounced the Bulldogs by open water in last week's Sprints. But tomorrow things could be different...
Berman and Sabath will be arraigned Monday. Their attorney Neil L. Chayet said last night that it is "safe to assume" they will plead innocent...
...enthusiasm for any legislation granting him immunity from prosecution if he were to leave office. "This matter should take its course," Mansfield said, meaning a full Senate impeachment trial. "We should not have another Agnew situation," he added-a reference to the Vice President's being allowed to plead nolo contendere to income tax evasion, then to resign and be granted immunity from further federal prosecution...
...influence the Justice Department's settlement of its antitrust suit against ITT. He later revealed that Nixon himself had phoned him and asked him not to carry the case against ITT to the Supreme Court. Apparently, Jaworski's staff prosecutors are willing to let Kleindienst plead guilty to a misdemeanor rather than a felony, giving him a better chance to avoid disbarment...
...board of embalmers and funeral directors, a board of cosmetology, as well as both a savings and loan commission and a division of savings and loans supervision and seven often overlapping agencies that deal with clean water. When members of the redundant committees would go to Washington to plead for appropriations or testify on bills, they sometimes presented opposing testimony. "We had no clout in Washington because the Federal Government didn't know what the hell Missouri wanted," says Bond...