Word: pleas
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...recent plea for "tolerance" and "civility" in the abortion debate, Dole got tolerance and civility off to a shaky start by accusing the Democrats of "hard-line views" and "extremism." Certainly nothing in the Democratic platform is as hard-line and extreme as the Republican call for executing abortion patients. But Dole wishes to make much of an episode at the 1992 Democratic Convention that has achieved mythic status in the abortion debate...
...American standards, many of the Yeltsin campaign's tactics are pretty crude--and none more so than God Forbid, a six-page newspaper warning of dire consequences if Zyuganov wins. On the front page of the first issue, which has already flooded 10 million Russian homes, a fabricated plea from Stacy Edwards urges voters to choose Yeltsin over the Communists. Edwards plays Holly on Santa Barbara, an American soap opera widely watched on Russian television. Inside, a full-page color photo portraying Zyuganov has been retouched to show him in a surgical gown, holding a sickle poised to slice into...
Zyuganov's career as an opposition leader has been characterized by caution and measured ambition. In July 1991 he and 11 others signed an open letter titled "A Word to the People," a blistering plea to save the Soviet Union from Gorbachev's reforms. The letter, which Prokhanov wrote, marked the birth of the union between Communists and nationalists that some fear will transform Zyuganov's coalition into a Russian version of Hitler's National Socialist party. It also foreshadowed the failed coup by party hard-liners the following month. Although he proudly calls himself a "leading ideologist...
...Toronto. Despite his Parkinson's and other ailments, Billy had rarely missed a crusade. But on the day before he was scheduled to address 50,000 people in the Toronto SkyDome, he collapsed with a bleeding colon. From his hospital bed, Billy had an aide call Franklin with a plea to take over, and the son jumped on a plane, flew to Toronto and began frenzied preparation. Only the following morning did he learn that the crusade's local organizers, reportedly after consulting with Billy's staff, had decided to use another of the organization's preachers. Months later, still...
...than his brothers, and was deeply affected by the involvement of his family's company in rebuilding the holy mosques in Mecca and Medina. Then in 1979, just after he graduated from King Abdul Aziz University, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, and mujahedin resistance fighters put out an international plea for help. Bin Laden responded by packing himself and several of his family's bulldozers off to central Asia. He was inspired, he said, by the plight of Muslims in a medieval society besieged by a 20th century superpower. "In our religion, there is a special place in the hereafter...