Word: pleads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Late last week, the separatists announced that if statehood was not granted by Feb. 5 they would take unspecified "revolutionary measures." Undoubtedly mindful that Andhra was originally created in 1953 after a follower of Mohandas Gandhi fasted until he died to plead for statehood, a separatist leader, Subba Reddy, declared that if necessary he would immolate himself to achieve the same goal...
...early evening, the gunmen released one hostage, a girl named Judy Maladet, to plead for a doctor. Running terrified across the street and into the arms of a policeman, she reported that one robber was badly wounded and "lying on the floor spitting up blood." Five hours later, the gunmen released a second hostage with the same request, but police refused to send in a doctor unless they surrendered...
Word had got out that the four gunmen were members of the Black Muslim sect. An old World War II personnel carrier delivered to the scene a Black Muslim minister who had agreed to plead with the men. He refused to disclose his name lest his standing among his followers be damaged by cooperation with the police. Speaking first in English and then in Arabic, he appealed to the gunmen to come out. If they would blink the store lights three times, he said, he would enter the store alone...
...remaining defendants is G. Gordon Liddy, onetime White House aide and counsel to last year's Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Liddy, a lawyer, might be the most reluctant of the defendants to plead guilty, since this would probably lead to his disbarment...
...readings, she joined some 1,500 other students in a sit-in at the university's R.O.T.C. building to protest the U.S. invasion of Cambodia and the shootings of students on two U.S. campuses. Arrested for criminal trespass on state-supported property-a misdemeanor-she was urged to plead guilty. "I thought about it from all angles," she says, "and I decided to refuse. I suppose that can be seen as Kantian: if copping a plea is universalized, we would not have a system...