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...were jammed with thousands of people. Perhaps the lightest moment in a generally grim day was the arrival of Khomeini's only surviving son, Seyyed Ahmed Khomeini, 36. As he was hoisted over the high wall, Khomeini lost both his white turban and his sandals, causing his aides to plead to the crowd, "Where is the squire's turban?" Then the younger Khomeini announced that he, like his father, supported the embassy takeover. "This is not an occupation," he said. "We have thrown out the occupiers...
Although the Faculty invited student groups to plead their case for voting rights, they rejected the proposal by a large margin. Nevertheless, the Fainsod Report offered an explanation for not granting students suffrage. "The case for vesting faculties with the final responsibility for appointments, curricular and degree requirements rests on their professional qualifications and on the fact that they must live with their decisions over many studnt generations." It seemed paradoxical to many students that the group charged with finding ways to include undergraduates in University decision-making denied them a formal vote on the matter...
...increases in staffing, arguments that were hard to refute or refuse. There was no way to pit them against each other or to put the proverbial big picture together. Under the revised system, each year at this time the department heads meet with Kaufmann and other financial officials, and plead their cases. Kaufmann says this set-up means that Rosovsky will be able to calculate how much extra tuition departmental requests would require, and thus choose how to increase or cut personnel allocations more informedly...
White is a "waivers judge," which means that he tries defendants who have waived their right to a jury. In Philadelphia, defendants usually do not plea bargain-that is, plead guilty in return for leniency. Instead, they are apt to plead not guilty but waive their right to a jury trial because they know waivers judges will go easy on them. Too easy, complain Philadelphia prosecutors. In White's court, defendants convicted of shootings and stabbings get off on probation; attempted rape of a girl of 16 by three men with criminal records got the three only...
...loss with a second quarter deficit that could come close to $200 million. The company may end the year with a loss of more than $400 million, double last year's $204.6 million deficit. Chairman John Riccardo has made a dozen trips to Washington since mid-1978 to plead for tax breaks and relief from some federal environmental and safety regulations. His hope is to ease the financial strain enough to skinny through to 1981, when President Lee lacocca is expected to bring out a series of front-wheel-drive compacts to compete with General Motors' successful...