Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue, the pro-contra groups have been stepping up their efforts to seize some of the spotlight from their left-wing rivals. At a press conference in New York City last week, Arturo Cruz, Adolfo Calero and Alfonso Robelo, leading members of the opposition to the Sandinistas, made a plea for renewed U.S. support for their movement. Nicaragua has become "a sanctuary for terrorism, a center for subversion," Robelo said. He warned of an ominous domino chain of Communist expansion: "When Mexico finally explodes, it's going to affect California, Texas and beyond...
...officers said they are frustrated sometimes that manpower is short and some suspects get away on plea bargains or technicalities. Sometimes the cops wonder what they're doing out there...
...whom he will bestow the Congressional medal of honor this week. Of his teenage years spent in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Weisel wrote in his autobiographical account, Night, "Never shall I forget these things even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself." While Reagan's plea to "look to the future" is an apt one, it should not be accompanied by an obliteration of the past...
...wants to be seen as soft on crime or on criminals. Ronald Reagan has led a conservative Administration that has championed efforts to limit the rights of criminal suspects and expand those of victims. Democrats Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro made the reduction of crime an element of their plea to return to "family values." Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, one of the most liberal members of the Senate, was a leading sponsor of the most sweeping federal anticrime measure in the past 16 years. Enacted last October, the revision of the criminal code permits pretrial detention of "dangerous" defendants, increases...
...promoting a peaceful solution to the problems of the region; Betancur has reached a controversial peace agreement with some 5,000 leftist guerrillas in his own country. He will also brief Reagan on the progress of Colombia's eleven-month war against the local cocaine trade and make a plea for Latin American exports as part of a solution to ease the region's immense burden of foreign debt...