Word: pleadings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon, the subpoena presents an acute personal problem. He can move to quash it, as he had on several occasions in other litigation as President, but legal experts see little hope of a successful challenge now that he is out of office. Eventually, he probably will either have to plead the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination or testify and perhaps further incriminate himself...
Senator Edward Kennedy, co-sponsor of the bill, was angry enough to take a dramatic step. He filed suit against the Administration in U.S. District Court in Washington and then argued the case himself on the assumption that nobody could plead for Congress more persuasively than one of its members. Nixon, he charged, had made "promiscuous use" of the pocket veto. In the past, most measures that had been vetoed in this fashion were usually not vital to the national welfare. But Kennedy considered his own bill to be a major undertaking. In addition, Nixon had vetoed the bill...
...Methodist who had started attending the church only weeks before, heard the Rev. Richard Halverson, Washington's best-known evangelical preacher, talk about the power of Satan that tempted leaders to play God. The next week, when approached by White House Aide John Caulfield, McCord refused to plead guilty and remain silent...
Playing politics on their own, Democrats in Congress started drawing up bills to boost supports to at least 85% of parity. Lobbyists for the cooperatives urged Administration officials to raise the price supports, and the dairymen got an appointment to plead their case before Nixon on March...
...right-wing coup spearheaded by 650 regular Greek officers on the island to train the more than 10,000-man national guard. A notorious terrorist, Nikos Giorgiades Sampson, 39, was picked as the new President. Makarios flew off to New York City in a borrowed cassock to plead for help before the United Nations Security Council, but before the U.N. could act or the major powers could intervene, the Turks invaded...