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...Jones News Service reported that the Justice Department had tentatively agreed to allow Agnew to plead guilty to a minor charge in return for Agnew's resignation...
Richardson's aides were willing to entertain a bargain. What Agnew wanted was of course not possible, they said, but would Agnew be willing to plead guilty to a single charge in the case? In turn, the department was prepared to urge the courts to be lenient with the Vice President after his resignation...
...because Allende's land-reform programs reduced production. The government, as owner of the copper mines, was in deep trouble when world copper prices fell. Foreign reserves totaled $345 million when Allende took office; by the end of last year they had disappeared, and Chile was forced to plead for rescheduling of more than $2.5 billion in international debts. The country was so polarized in the end that Allende was under simultaneous attack by rightists for being too extreme and by leftists for being too timid...
...chief judge since 1962. A judicial activist, he is best known for his pioneering opinion in the Durham case of 1954, in which he permitted a plea of not guilty by reason of mental illness, thus modernizing the 19th century M'Naghten rule that a criminal defendant could plead insanity only if he did not know right from wrong. In the Durham ruling, the court declared that a man is legally insane if his unlawful act is the "product of mental disease or defect...
...critical period began on March 20, when Watergate Defendant James W. McCord Jr. wrote a letter to Federal District Judge John J. Sirica charging that political pressure had been exerted upon the seven defendants to plead guilty. By the time it ended, with President Nixon's television announcement on April 30 of the resignation of John D. Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman, 17 present or former Nixon staffers were under investigation by the Justice Department and a federal grand jury...