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...heighten the pressure, the hijackers put several hostages on the radio to plead for a resolution of the crisis. One, who identified himself as Mohammed Ahmed al-Hajemi, declared in a strained voice, "I greet my family, and I ask the Kuwaiti authorities to free the prisoners. Otherwise the kidnapers will kill us." Throughout, the skyjackers defended their actions. "We are men of principle, not highway bandits," one asserted. "We would have preferred not to use such methods, but we have no choice. We repeat our demand for the liberation of our 17 brothers, and we will not go back...
...resulted in more than 1,000 arrests since it began in December 1986. The national program will adopt the San Diego approach, in which suspects are charged with both illegal importation of drugs, a felony, and simple possession, a misdemeanor. Most are then offered a deal: if they plead guilty to the misdemeanor, the Government will drop the felony count and the magistrate will grant deferred prosecution, which means that the suspect's record will be wiped clean if he stays out of trouble for one year. More than 99% of those nabbed at San Ysidro pleaded guilty...
...despondent over his Iran-contra role that he tried to commit suicide. Last week the troubles of former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane continued. He became the first Reagan Administration official to plead guilty to crimes in the scandal. After negotiations with Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, McFarlane, 50, admitted that on four occasions in 1985 and 1986 he unlawfully withheld information from Congress about the National Security Council's secret military aid to the Nicaraguan rebels...
...less romantically: "I go out, seek companions, bear them home . . . No bourgeois sentiments for me, no noble passions." Elsewhere, Anita Brookner's questionable heroine pitches her case more strongly: "I had resolved at a very early stage never to be reduced to any form of emotional beggary, never to plead, never to impose guilt, and never to consider the world well lost for love. I think of myself as a plain dealer and I am rather proud of the honesty of my transactions...
...Personalized soap boxes. The members could plead for a grant to their pet student group from atop their very own stands...