Word: pleadings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dienstbier did not come here to plead for money. He asked, rather, that the Western countries help create the conditions necessary for Czechoslovakia's successful transition to a market economy. He asked for technical assistance, for Western investment, and for a monetary fund to ensure the stability of the Czechoslovak currency...
...desert winds called hamis are blowing now, and with them Baghdad seems enveloped in a surreal haze: diplomats drop out of the sky to plead with Saddam Hussein for a solution before it is too late; hostages lounge by the pool and pin their hopes on each new arrival; ministers hint of divisions within the government; reporters interview the most recent terrorists to take up residence here; the Muzak in the state-owned hotel plays Hava Nagila...
Salazar said because the Guatemalan justice system relies on written statements, rather than oral testimony, it gives individuals almost no power to plead their cases. In addition, she said that public confidence in the system is so low that many people will not report crimes of authorities...
...much time should America's most famous Wall Street criminal spend in the slammer? Junk-bond king Michael Milken, who is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 1, could get up to 28 years. He has already been punished financially: last April, when Milken reached an agreement with prosecutors to plead guilty to six of the 98 counts of securities fraud and other crimes leveled against him, he was ordered to pay $200 million in fines and $400 million in restitution. Scores of Milken's friends -- and a smattering of his foes -- have deluged New York Federal District Court Judge Kimba...
...disparate factions, but they are united in wondering what 18 months of dialogue with the U.S. has bought. P.L.O. requests seem reasonable enough: direct talks with Israel, a United Nations team to investigate alleged Israeli abuses of Palestinian human rights in the occupied territories, a chance for Arafat to plead his case at the General Assembly in New York. What they have got is nothing, and it was the U.S. that vetoed U.N. inspection of the West Bank and Gaza...