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Shortly after this holy hootenanny, local ecclesiastical authorities begin to be nasty to the Franciscans, killing one of the brothers. St. Francis and his friends promptly go to Rome, where they plead their case before Pope Innocent III (Alec Guinness). The Pope is moved by their presence to ruminate aloud: "In our obsession with original sin, we forget about original grace." Zeffirelli apparently has forgotten about both...
...letter, written without his lawyers' knowledge, McCord charged that "there was political pressure applied to the defendants to plead guilty and remain silent." Five of the defendants, not including McCord, had done so. McCord also claimed that "perjury occurred during the trial in matters highly material to the very structure, orientation and impact of the Government's case." Moreover, he wrote, "others involved in the Watergate operation were not identified during the trial, when they could have been by those testifying...
Some Senators said that they will recall Gray to testify further this week. They will also ask White House Counsel Dean to appear, though Nixon has already said that he would plead the right of Executive privilege to keep him from testifying...
Late last week, the separatists announced that if statehood was not granted by Feb. 5 they would take unspecified "revolutionary measures." Undoubtedly mindful that Andhra was originally created in 1953 after a follower of Mohandas Gandhi fasted until he died to plead for statehood, a separatist leader, Subba Reddy, declared that if necessary he would immolate himself to achieve the same goal...
Word had got out that the four gunmen were members of the Black Muslim sect. An old World War II personnel carrier delivered to the scene a Black Muslim minister who had agreed to plead with the men. He refused to disclose his name lest his standing among his followers be damaged by cooperation with the police. Speaking first in English and then in Arabic, he appealed to the gunmen to come out. If they would blink the store lights three times, he said, he would enter the store alone...