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...some outrageous things was that this is his story," says Leona Schecter. After his boss Beria was purged and shot in 1953, Sudoplatov was accused of mass murders by the victorious Nikita Khrushchev and jailed for 15 years. He was eventually rehabilitated after addressing a 1982 plea to the Communist Party Central Committee mentioning his exploits in obtaining atomic information from Oppenheimer, Fermi and Bohr, among others. The committee, say the Schecters, could easily have checked every word...
...sexless and bitter marriage? Is it linked to the futile assimilationism of her Jew-among-Wasps banker husband? Is it somehow tied to her Cassandra-like obsession with Hitler's assault on German Jews, a threat in which no one around her sees urgency? Or is her disability a plea for attention? Meditating on these dilemmas are Sylvia (Amy Irving), her volatile husband (Ron Rifkin) and a doctor (David Dukes), who, without training, tries to psychoanalyze her, but begins to seduce her instead...
...months after his arrest for spying for Moscow, CIA agent Aldrich Ames was sentenced to life in prison without parole after agreeing to a plea bargain that will guarantee a five- to six-year prison term for his wife Rosario. The shortened sentence will allow her to return more quickly to caring for the couple's five-year-old son Paul. In exchange, Ames will cooperate with authorities in ascertaining the extent of the damage caused by his nine years of spying...
...Hogue and the Mercer Countyprosecutor's office worked out a plea arrangementconcerning the Princeton case. Hogue would pleadguilty to theft by deception for collecting$21,124 in Princeton funds. In return, prosecutorswould recommend five years' probation, no morethan 270 days in jail, 100 hours of communityservice and full restitution of the Princetonmoney...
...they had read more carefully, it might also have taught them to think for themselves. For this is not a self-help or self-hate book; it is a plea for common survival. It posed Rodney King's plea more subtly but no less potently: Can we all get along...