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...prosecution's confidence in its case led to the collapse of another defense effort: pleading guilty to save Kaczynski's life. The plea was sent along to Washington by the Special Attorney Robert Cleary in Sacramento, and after several weeks of consideration, Attorney General Janet Reno and the Justice Department rejected it. Said a high-ranking department official: "This man is a cold-blooded killer. Read his writing." Kaczynski's brother David, who turned him in, claims that the government should have fully investigated his mental state, including interviewing the family, before deciding on the death penalty. The Justice official...
...golden years, at a dinner party for the Duchess of Devonshire, Ethel Kennedy slipped in a worldly addendum to the grace she said before the meal. "And please, dear God, make Bobby buy me a bigger dining-room table." It was an understandable plea from the mistress of Hickory Hill, the Robert Kennedy family's child-beswarmed antebellum homestead in McLean, Va. After Bobby's death, Ethel was left to raise a brood of 11. Today the nine surviving R.F.K. offspring form the largest single clan among the Kennedy third generation...
...money has since been returned). Though they could help build a case against Huang and others, they may opt not to play and remain in Indonesia. The task force, meanwhile, is pressuring frequent donor Johnny Chung, by threatening an indictment on tax and other charges, hoping for a guilty plea and his cooperation...
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...wary cartel: always in competition but still bound together, in charge of the same pot of gold. Now one of them is going under the hot lights, giving them all a new reason to be nervous. Brown & Williamson Tobacco was the "unindicted co-conspirator" in the guilty plea Wednesday of a California biotech firm called DNAP, which was convicted of breeding high-nicotine tobacco plants (illegal under U.S. law) and smuggling seeds out of the country to be farmed in Brazil...