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...Heard Pope Paul VI plead for "No more war, never again war!" in a rare and warming speech that was made doubly poignant by the U.N.'s inability to impede world conflicts...
...reflect on Caesar's fate and other most unkindest cuts. For whatever else he may have done in a long and lucrative career-and he has only twice gone to prison before-Sam at 57 is in durance vile for indulging his red-blooded American right to plead the Fifth Amendment...
Moreover, the Supreme Court not only made Gideon retroactive; it later ex tended the ruling to all defendants who plead guilty rather than stand trial (up to 90% in some states). In addition, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled last January that Gideon applies to misdemeanors as well as felonies (Harvey v. Mississippi...
...mock trial by acting out the role of the knight of the woeful countenance. The indictment is modishly mock-cynical a la 1965; not the worst of the evening's sentimentalities is: "I charge you with being an idealist, a bad poet and an honest man. How plead you?" With this cue, the good grey don (Richard Kiley) whirls into his act. He tilts at windmills, mistakes an inn for a castle where he is to be knighted, swears that a barber's basin is a golden helmet, and with chivalric ardor vows devotion to a lusty serving...
...President out of context. With omitted portions italicized, the full quotation is: "Since our personal political persuasions are irrelevant here, this letter is neither an endorsement nor a criticism of your actions, of National policy, or of the convictions of any political movement." Thus our letter did not "plead . . . [political] noninvolvement" or imply that we had taken no stand on the war in Vietnam; It merely denied that our collective or individual political positions were germane to the repudiation of an III-advised means of protest. A substantial number of us have forcefully stated, in personal letters to the President...