Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fighter. Holbrooke is furious that Haxhiu sits through the meeting with his assault rifle propped between his legs. Sipping Turkish coffee, Shehu reports that Serb attacks have reduced the population from 12,000 to 2,000, and the village remains under Serb mortar fire. He brushes aside Holbrooke's plea for a cease-fire and says the guerrillas will fight until Kosovo wins independence, or until death. "It reminds me of Bosnia on the eve of war," Holbrooke says as he leaves. "Both sides are ready to fight...
...knows that in many cases, a deal beats a court fight hands down. Beneficiaries of his bargaining skills include Fawn Hall, the former secretary to Oliver North who won immunity in exchange for testimony, and Ames, who faced a possible death sentence until Cacheris secured a life-in-prison plea bargain. But Cacheris is also a natural in the courtroom, "a maestro," as a fellow lawyer puts it, who cross-examines with laserlike ferocity and charms the jury with wit. ("My client is a fool, an ass, a boor!" he once thundered. "But he is not a cold-blooded strangler...
...King's father disowned his son in an apology to the Byrd family Wednesday: "I want to say I'm sorry," he wrote. "It hurts me deeply to know that a boy I raised... could find it in himself to take a life." And Sheriff Billy Rowles had a plea for the country: "Don't label us; we're good people." Rowles need not worry. Some of the South's ghosts may have been raised this week, but a town grieving in unison has shown that the rest are well and truly buried...
Once again, Terry Nichols stood silently before Judge Richard Matsch, this time to receive the sentence he'd feared since being convicted last December in the Oklahoma City bombing case: Life in prison, without parole. The defense had argued for a seven-year term with the plea that Nichols couldn't very well say anything in his defense without the risk that it might be used against him in the murder trial that the state of Oklahoma hopes to conduct...
...rocket technology into your hands, Johnny Chung would not be your first choice for the job--or your second choice or even your third. Yet Chung, the cartoonish Taiwan-born businessman best known for his role in the 1996 Clinton campaign-finance scandals ($366,000 in suspicious contributions; a plea bargain in which he's cooperating with investigators), was being described in Washington last week as the pivot man in a "China Plan" to do just that. For an influence peddler, he employed an unlikely m.o.--a garish, glad-handing personality that repelled those he wanted to seduce, from...