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...energy program deep into hostile territory last week, traveling to Houston to address a meeting of 3,000 oil and gas executives. They represented the industry that President Carter last month accused of plotting "the greatest rip-off in history," and Schlesinger's mission seemed to be to plead for peace and understanding. He did-but only to a point. Denying the industry's basic complaint that the Administration's complex plan does not offer enough in the way of incentives for increased fuel exploration, the Energy Secretary insisted that the program would bring on "a golden...
Bell took the threat seriously. He told Williams that if Helms would plead nolo contendere (no contest)-in reality an admission of guilt-to the misdemeanors, the Justice Department would support Helms' insistence that his accumulated federal pension rights be protected, and would recommend that he not be imprisoned. This bargain was intended to ensure that no national secrets would be endangered at a trial. At the same time, it would demonstrate that the Carter Administration is in accord with Congress that even CIA chiefs are accountable to both the public...
...without much risk. Prosecutors will usually allow arrested smugglers to plead guilty to misdemeanors, even in states that make buttlegging a felony...
...RESOLUTION of the Richard Helms case has furnished new evidence that the "national security" red herring is alive and well in the corridors of Washington these days, the moral of the Watergate parable notwithstanding. Allowing the former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director to plead nolo contendre to two misdemeanor counts of failing to testify fully to Congress may have proven the most expeditious way of wrapping up the two-year-old investigation of Helms, but the circumstances surrounding the plea-bargain arrangement and its announcement has raised serious questions about the Justice Department's modus operandi that will ensure...
After the failure of the skyjacking and the suicides of the terrorists, there was little hope that Schleyer would turn up alive. Nevertheless, West German President Walter Scheel took to television to plead with the abductors: "The whole world ?East and West?is against you. I appeal to you to set your hostage free." To no avail. Twenty-four hours later, the Liberation, which had been used by Schleyer's kidnapers to convey previous messages, received a telephone call from a terrorist. He identified himself as a member of the Commando Siegfried Hausner of the Red Army Faction?...