Word: pleads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaders met repeatedly in Havana at the invitation of Fidel Castro. In exchange for Cuban promises of increased military aid, the guerrillas formed three organizations: 1) the Democratic Revolutionary Front (F.D.R.), an amalgam of revolutionaries and representatives of alienated left-wing Salvadoran political parties, whose job is to plead the guerrilla case abroad; 2) the Unified Revolutionary Directorate, a 15-member war council of the top guerrilla commandantes; and 3) the F.M.L.N. itself, a coordinating body for the guerrilla groups...
...guerrillas have even hired a U.S. public relations firm with offices in Manhattan and Washington to plead their case. Whatever their internal divisions and rivalries, the guerrillas have learned very well that the best place to put up a united front is in public. -By George Russell
...touchdown or even taking the oath of office, hand on the Bible: the vision of being discovered and thrust into instant movie stardom. In much publicized myth, it can happen at a soda counter. But it happens most often to people who work at it, begging for appointments to plead for the privilege of being allowed to audition so that they can then risk being "typed out"-excluded because they have "the wrong look"-after a glance from a casting director. In life, humiliation and disappointment wear actors out; in show-business legend, the defeated heroes are inspired to fight...
...CHIEF obstacle to an acid rain bill is currently the Reagan Administration. By systematically ignoring the acid rain, the Administration has fumbled one of its few opportunities for favorable publicity on the environmental front. The results are in and Reagan can no longer legitimately plead ignorance on the issue. Any more foot dragging is an insult to anyone concerned with America's natural resources, and to out northern neighbor...
Ossorio, who was chairman of the parent Drysdale firm, steadfastly maintained his innocence, saying last week that he was entering a guilty plea only to avoid "prolonged and expensive" litigation. Said he: "I voluntarily plead guilty even though I do not believe I am guilty." Co-Defendant Heuwetter, the owner of Drysdale Government Securities, said that the charge against him was "substantially" true. Said he: "I had hoped that I could make up the losses...