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...anxious to get involved. But last week in an emergency meeting, Lisbon's Revolutionary Council agreed to send 2,000 reinforcements to beef up its 24,000 troops still in the territory. At the same tune, Portuguese Foreign Minister Ernesto Melo Antunes flew to Luanda to plead for peace...
Plea bargaining is the one fixture of the criminal-justice system that is indisputably efficient. It has, however, left observers cynical about its effects. Typically the state permits a defendant to plead guilty to a reduced charge in return for a sure, final and time-saving conviction. That leads to complaints that the deals often let offenders get away, literally, with murder. Civil libertarians, on the other hand, protest that bargains enable the state to get convictions in shaky cases. With serious criminals apparently getting off too lightly and the innocent sometimes getting shafted, plea bargaining has a deservedly disastrous...
...testing Angelo: "Hence shall we see,/ If power change purpose, what our seemers be." Initially, Angelo acts as severely as we would expect. He condemns Claudio (Stephen Macht) to be executed for the crime of fornication. When Claudio's novitiate sister Isabella (Martha Henry) comes to plead for her brother's life in the white flowing garb of a nun, Angelo proves not to be what he seems...
...Arab League's representative at the U.N., "the picture that was painted of us-as mentally retarded cowards who couldn't handle modern machinery and would not stand and fight-has been disproved. Now Americans know that's wrong. Instead of our having to plead with them to listen, they ask us to tell them more...
...that Cabinet members be picked exclusively from Congress but keep their congressional seats even while serving the Administration. This is similar to the British Cabinet system under which ministers are also Members of Parliament. If they leave the Cabinet, they remain M.P.s with a prestigious forum in which to plead any case, and may also be looked upon as leading critics of government policy-and so be among the first called to power if that policy fails...