Word: pleads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come to visit her brother, Kevin Lynch, 25, a couple of days before he died, "but my mother has to accept this." When families timidly suggest giving up the strike, sons turn their faces away or weakly hold up their palms asking them to stop. If mothers plead, some angry sons will order them out of the room and refuse further visits. Bobby Sands, 27, warned his mother he would never speak to her again if she interfered after he lost consciousness...
...last week Eden Pastora stunned the Sandinista leadership by resigning as Vice Minister of Defense and leaving for Panama. The ruling directorate tried to talk Pastora into returning. Three directorate members appeared on national television to plead with the revolutionary hero to "undo" his action...
...American soul laid bare came back three weeks ago when a House judiciary subcommittee opened debate on extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. A key provision of the law will expire in August 1982 and many of the nation's minority leaders were on hand to plead for at least a ten-year extension...
When the suit came to trial in Annapolis, Agnew did not appear. His attorney, T. Rogers Harrison, asserted that if the former Vice President were compelled to take the stand, he would plead his Fifth Amendment privilege against selfincrimination. In Agnew's absence, Judge Williams took testimony from contractors who said they had paid the kickbacks. Another witness was George White, a former Agnew attorney. White said that eight months before his resignation, Agnew had admitted to him that he received kickbacks from contractors doing construction work for the state...
...Neboville, Mrs. Milam told Sasser: "I'm concerned about the older people and the disabled because I know they're in trouble. I'm feeding them here and they can't pay their bills." More than 600 Social Security recipients and sympathizers showed up to plead for New York Congressman Charles Rangel's help at a meeting in Manhattan. They hope to muster a national rally of a million or more on the Mall in Washington this summer...