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...DURESS. The defense could plead that Patty had acted under unusual duress or coercion. But to make this claim stand up, the defense would have to show that she never had an opportunity to escape. The prosecution has evidence that she passed up at least one good chance. On May 16, 1974, authorities maintain, Patty took part in a bizarre shoplifting incident at a Los Angeles sporting-goods store. When William Harris, one of her companions in arms, was detected stealing a pair of 490 socks, Patty was seen outside alone in the parked car. She is charged with spraying...
...much responsibility does Hirohito bear for Japan's entry into World War II? Hearing of pending war crimes trials, he once went to General MacArthur to plead that he alone should bear the blame for every act of war. More realistically, Hirohito reminds questioners these days that even in his prewar era of official divinity, he was a monarch hemmed in by a constitution, not to mention the military leaders who came to power in Japan after 1931. Even so, writes Author Frank Gibney in The Fragile Super Power (TIME, April 21), "He served as a symbol of militarism...
...bonds issued by other cities; some municipalities are already finding it hard to raise money from investors. New York Mayor Abraham Beame therefore won unanimous support from his 14 colleagues on the executive committee of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, who journeyed with him to Washington last week to plead for federal aid. With a touch of hyperbole Denver Mayor William H. McNichols told Congress's Joint Economic Committee that "every city in the nation is like a tenant in the same building." The mayors proposed two alternative plans: 1) that the Federal Government guarantee a new kind...
...arrangement between the club and the University apparently grows from Harvard's failure to develop an interim use for the idle and. Now that this "perpetual deficit," as one administrator calls it, has been diagnosed, Harvard can no longer even plead bad eyesight or a poor memory. The grassy plot should be opened to the public, both those affiliated with the University and those who are not. Initial costs and maintenance fees, a concern raised by some administrators, can be kept low by closing the park at night and opening only one entrance in the day away from heavily traveled...
...first of a long series of tests that must be taken if you placed out of the language requirement. The cool thing to do is plead you have dyslexia--a convenient reading disability created specifically to get you out of taking the French exam...