Word: pleadings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Helfand claims that he never assaulted an officer. "A cop jumped me from behind and then hit me over the head with a blackjack," Helfand said yesterday. "I never saw him and I'm not really sure what happened. I'm definitely going to plead 'not guilty'," he added...
That scene symbolized the real significance of this year's State of the Union message. Needing help from a Democratic Congress in an election year, Nixon used his report, supplemented by a written message, to plead with his foes to put the public interest above their partisan concerns-and thus set them up for censure if they fail to respond to the lofty call to statesmanship. Confident, conciliatory and optimistic, Nixon was at his professional best in a speech honed, through eight drafts, to a taut 31 minutes. Heavy on generalities, soft on specifics, the address was far from...
...business as usual in Illinois. All week long, the Democratic office seekers trooped to the specially reserved rooms in Chicago's Sherman House hotel or in the St. Nicholas in downstate Springfield to pledge fealty and plead for places on the party slate. Finally, the state's dozen or so top Democrats gathered, as they always do, in the smallish Sherman House office of the Cook County chairman, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley. Last week, almost four months before the state primary, King Richard's court announced the Democratic nominees...
...Iceland. He said that the Government had reached a verbal agreement with Iceland at that nation's request. By 1963, the Icelandic government accepted two married black servicemen into the country, and the number has now increased to about 40. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird could only plead that he had no control over previous administrations and that no such understandings now exist...
When Prime Minister Indira Gandhi returned home from her three-week tour of Western nations last week, one of the first things she did was to go before her hawkish Parliament and plead for patience toward her handling of the crisis with Pakistan. The urgent need for a solution was all too apparent. Officials in New Delhi said that the biggest frontier battle yet between Indians and Pakistanis occurred when 2,800 Pakistani regulars crossed the border into West Bengal. Defense Minister Jagjivan Ram rose in Parliament to say that if India was attacked, it would "carry the war into...