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...have killed the wrong man. Brooks and a partner were both convicted in 1977 of murdering an automobile mechanic the year before. It never came out in trial who actually fired the bullet that killed the mechanic. But Brooks' partner, by using the appeals process, was allowed to plead guilty last year to having committed the crime. He was given a 40-year sentence, and could be eligible for parole in just two years. Brooks, who maintained his innocence, was slain...
...idea that most Americans get most of their news from television has for some time been regarded as both true and alarming. With noble earnestness, Walter Cronkite used to plead that his half-hour script would not fill three-quarters of a single newspaper page and that distortion was "the inevitable result of trying to get ten pounds of news into the one-pound sack we are given each night." Speaking at a du Pont Awards ceremony at Columbia University in February, NBC's Tom Brokaw said that unfortunately many Americans "have come to rely on us as their...
...last week that the negotiations "are not going quite as fast as we would like." After a pause, he added, "It ain't easy." Another senior U.S. official was even more discouraged. "We try to see the bright side, give everyone the benefit of the doubt, cajole and plead," he said. "But the momentum is giving out, and we may be at a stopping point...
...Commerce Department's ruling could encourage other companies to plead their cases in Washington. By one estimate, some 225 U.S. firms have already raised pipeline-related questions with the department. With the Andrew Corp. case as a precedent, enforcing the sanctions could prove more and more difficult...
...allegedly bought the murder rifle; and Jimmy's wife Elizabeth, 28, who is charged with covering up the crime. Jimmy will be tried separately later. The final defendant was to have been the youngest Chagra brother, Joseph, 35, an El Paso lawyer. But last month he agreed to plead guilty to the murder-conspiracy charge and testify against Harrelson in return for a ten-year maximum sentence and the right not to testify against his brother...