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...elderly, tried to fill with his complementary bill. At $4.5 billion by 1990, the Pepper proposal appealed more to the heart than to reason. "This is a day for which I've waited and worked and I might say prayed for 50 years," Pepper declared in an impassioned plea to his colleagues on the day of the vote. "Think about the human values...
...divestment activists arrested for occupying the office of a Harvard overseer entered a plea of not guilty at their arraignment in Boston Municipal Court yesterday morning...
...activists will appear in court again on June 23, when they are expected to repeat their plea of not guilty and set a date for a jury trial. The other two protesters, both alumni, waived their right to a jury trial and paid $65 fines for the offense...
Finger pointing and recriminations abound. Were the consequences of bringing an unenforceable indictment against a foreign leader seriously considered? Or the political embarrassment of plea bargaining with a thug? Why did Washington act before properly assessing Noriega's strength with the Panama Defense Forces (PDF) he commands? And why conduct a policy that was at once too public and too timid...
...early May, Abrams dispatched his deputy Michael Kozak to Panama for what amounted to a series of plea-bargaining negotiations. The U.S.'s final offer, approved by Reagan the Sunday before he left for the Moscow summit: if Noriega would leave Panama shortly after Aug. 12, the fifth anniversary of his taking office, he could return for the Christmas holidays and permanently after his country's 1989 presidential elections. Another sweetener was an offer of $90 million in American aid. Although Noriega was to ditch new President Manuel Solis Palma after the formation of a "national reconciliation" government, another henchman...