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After Lewis kills one of the pair of hillbillies who have sexually assaulted Bobby and are about to do the same to Ed. Drew contends that the body should be brought to the nearest sheriff, and that Lewis should plead his homicide justified. Lewis says that the situation won't permit its he would be tried by a jury of mountain people who would probably be the dead man's relatives lewis obtains group agreement (Ed is the deciding vote). In the book, the narrative progression is so lumps and Dickey's themes so muddled, that the some assumes importance...
...making the summit a kind of obeisance to Mao Tse-tung's Communists, who use that date as the anniversary of the triumphant establishment of their regime in Peking in 1949. When a ranking Japanese emissary arrived in Taipei early last week to plead for "understanding" of the summit, Nationalist student demonstrators greeted him with angry placards crying TANAKA GO TO HELL...
...really good books are rarely written while their authors are under indictment, and really coherent books are seldom compiled while their editors are being systematically dragged back and forth across the continent to plead, testify or be tried. Papers on the War, which Ellsberg has thrown together and Simon and Schuster marketed as a book, has any number of admirable qualities but coherence is not one of them...
...young man of 22, who looks as if he could be Omar Sharif's younger brother, confidently strides through the Olympic Village. Surrounding him is a retinue of coaches and teammates?the entourage of an athletic eminence. At the village entrance, dozens of jock groupies strain to touch him, plead for his autograph. Inside, competitors from other countries seek his signature. "Oh, look!" cries a delighted U.S. mermaid. "There he is!" Journalists pursue him into the shower before practice. People persistently ask: Can he win seven gold medals? Yes, he answers with quiet confidence...
...either from the regular public defender's office or from the Legal Assistance Association, which operates with both government and private grants. In the Sixth Circuit, there are only three public defenders, whom Hersey describes as "frightfully overburdened" and likely to settle cases quickly by persuading defendants to plead guilty to reduced charges. The L.A.A., by contrast, has provided 30 defenders, "mostly young idealists," who fight hard and have taken nine cases all the way to the Supreme Court. L.A.A. lawyers have done their share of plea bargaining, but only 1% of L.A.A. misdemeanor defendants during the last quarter...