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While Marshall's plea was the Times' lead story and warranted favorable same-day editorial comment, for the most part the full implications of what has come to be known as the Marshall Plan went unnoticed. In the words of one scholar of the era, it was "a singularly undramatic speech...
...fled to Greece to avoid prosecution for an unrelated kickback scheme, said he had tape-recorded conversations with Chairman Lewis and Vice President Gorden MacDonald, both since retired. The tapes purportedly showed an agreement to provide false data to the Government. But Government lawyers turned down Veliotis' plea for % immunity on the kickback charges, and the investigation wore on until last week without the cooperation of a key player...
...bitterly, "that she was a manipulative, rich, spoiled person who didn't treat this lovely man who murdered her nicely." Garland, a New York attorney, is working for the spread of legislation that gives victims the right to a voice at bail hearings and with the prosecution before a plea bargain is accepted. "I've told Jennifer's survivors that they can expect further desecration of her memory," he says...
Letting political criminals off the hook is becoming an American addiction. In Watergate the prosecution offered soft plea bargains in return for the truth. It never got the truth. Poindexter has gotten full immunity. If the Senate doesn't get the truth, we should learn our lesson: Don't ask the guilty to tell the truth; send them to jail...
...Mart's cut-rate prices have helped wipe out Main Street shopping. In the past, Wal-Mart's conservative management has drawn some flak for being too slow to promote women, which the company says is untrue, and for being too quick to submit to Preacher Jimmy Swaggart's plea to ban rock magazines like Rolling Stone from store racks...