Word: pleads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young man of 22, who looks as if he could be Omar Sharif's younger brother, confidently strides through the Olympic Village. Surrounding him is a retinue of coaches and teammates?the entourage of an athletic eminence. At the village entrance, dozens of jock groupies strain to touch him, plead for his autograph. Inside, competitors from other countries seek his signature. "Oh, look!" cries a delighted U.S. mermaid. "There he is!" Journalists pursue him into the shower before practice. People persistently ask: Can he win seven gold medals? Yes, he answers with quiet confidence...
...either from the regular public defender's office or from the Legal Assistance Association, which operates with both government and private grants. In the Sixth Circuit, there are only three public defenders, whom Hersey describes as "frightfully overburdened" and likely to settle cases quickly by persuading defendants to plead guilty to reduced charges. The L.A.A., by contrast, has provided 30 defenders, "mostly young idealists," who fight hard and have taken nine cases all the way to the Supreme Court. L.A.A. lawyers have done their share of plea bargaining, but only 1% of L.A.A. misdemeanor defendants during the last quarter...
ENCHANTMENT, but the bumper stickers inches away now plead SAVE THIS ENVIRONMENT-KEEP OUT or DON'T CALIFORNICATE COLORADO. The odds are good, of course, that the stickers were applied by people who recently immigrated themselves. As Brant Calkin, a Santa Fe Sierra Club official observes: "Everybody wants to be the last son of a bitch to move...
...particular sport." The rule is constantly flouted, to say nothing of being selectively and ineptly enforced. Austria's champion skier, Karl Schranz, was barred from last February's Winter Olympics at Sapporo on charges of professionalism, to which dozens of his competitors would -at least in private-plead guilty. The amateur status of most athletes from Communist countries is also in question. Potential champions get superior housing, superior food and superior wages while they concentrate on training for their events...
...should pay Conforti is also unclear. The Federal Government can plead "sovereign immunity." The individual narcotics agents would be able to claim that they are protected as agents of the Government if they can prove that they acted in "good faith" on the instructions of the search warrant. The bureau's associate regional director, Frank Monastero, who supervised the search, regrets only the failure to find any loot. "We didn't send in a lot of guys with instructions of 'you pound here' and 'you pound there,' " he says. "We went through a series...