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...exception is Pvt. Sam Lwin, who intends to be the first reservist to plead innocent to a desertion charge. The 21-year-old college student, born in Burma and raised in New York City, had seen posters promising adventure and job training...
...James Baker phoned to report growing pressure from Congress and allies to save the Kurds. British Prime Minister John Major had already publicly proposed several versions of a plan to establish "safe havens" for the Kurds inside Iraq, and France had sent senior diplomats to the State Department to plead for U.S. participation in some such effort...
After Graham stopped performing, she was still in the spotlight: marching on Washington to plead for government grants, attending fund-raising galas where she spoke mesmerizingly about her life. Her father became a regular player in these little monologues as she summoned up her childhood self riding beside him in the buggy while he made his rounds. Perhaps it was then that the seeds of an artistic revolution were sown, that the secret lies in an indomitable commitment to honesty in motion...
...higher per-capita income, wealth was concentrated in the hands of the Somozistas and the ruling elite that backed Somoza's corrupt and repressive regime. But the ten years of Sandinista rule undeniably increased the overall poverty of the country. This was what Chamorro--in Washington this week to plead for more aid--has pledged to reverse. This is what she has failed...
According to news reports, one of the Los Angeles policemen accused in the videotaped beating of Rodney King taunted him at the hospital by jeering, "We played a little hardball tonight, and you lost." When the four officers arrived last week in Los Angeles County Superior Court to plead not guilty to charges stemming from the incident, someone in the courthouse crowd yelled, "The hardball game is over...