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...first defendant to plead guilty was E. Howard Hunt, 54, a former White House consultant and longtime CIA official who played a prominent part in the planning of an earlier fiasco, the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961. At first Hunt offered to plead guilty to only three of the six charges against him, but under pressure from Judge Sirica he agreed to include...
Bail is also widely criticized because, in the words of the New York commission, it "arbitrarily discriminates against the poor" and puts those who cannot make bail under added "pressure to plead guilty." But precisely because of the latter reality, bail serves an unspoken purpose. Getting rid of it would very likely cut guilty pleas and further increase the already crippling delays in the courts...
...committee acknowledges that the GSD will submit a substantial amount of supporting evidence in confidence, Hartman said. He said the decision means the Design School "can plead confidentiality almost, at will; which structurally biases the preceding enormously...
...mere ripple. Some 38,000 Hungarians have fled to the U.S., as well as more than 150,000 Cubans. But the Ugandans differ in that they are not refugees from Communist oppression. Nor do the Ugandans have large communities of coreligionists or fellow ethnics in the U.S. to plead their cause; there are few Ugandans living in America and not many Indians or Pakistanis. Still, the U.S. might do more. Canada, for example, is admitting 2,000 Ugandans. There are still at least 6,000 Asians in Uganda desperately looking for some place in the world...
...Drinan's commitment to Israel; copies of an article Drinan wrote in the Jewish Advocate last July professing the Congressman's belief in the importance of U.S. help for the Israeli cause, and a New York Times, article from last March which tells of Drinan urging President Nixon to plead for the release of Soviet Jews on his trip to Moscow. Indeed, last Thursday night Ribicoff appeared with Drinan at Brookline High School to "report on Israeli-American relations...