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...GUERRILLA member, whose impassioned plea to Epps got him to meet with student representatives Wednesday morning, explained her thinking: "I was really tired and those freshmen looked like they were ready to stay all night. I had to do something...
Twenty-two anti-draft protestors, arrested for "idle and disorderly conduct" while demonstrating Saturday in front of a post office on Mt. Auburn St., yesterday entered a plea of "not guilty" at their arraignment...
...French government, taken by surprise, weakly insisted that it had not intervened militarily to counter Gaddafi's invasion of Chad because neither of the two cornerstones of French African policy had been violated. No French nationals were in jeopardy or in need of rescue, and no plea for French military help had come from a legitimate government. "We are just spectators," said a French spokesman. More pointedly, the Paris daily Le Monde called the invasion "a serious defeat for Paris," adding that "the French government was visibly caught on the wrong foot...
...turning point came early in the week, when Tomas Cardinal O'Fiaich, the Catholic Primate of All Ireland, sent a telegram to Thatcher pleading with her to intervene. The Iron Lady's refusal to do so, combined with her plea that the strikers "take the course of life rather than the course of death," apparently convinced them that they could not win. On Thursday evening they called off the protest. The next day, 33 other Republican prisoners, who had been fasting for up to 19 days in support of the original seven, gave...
Chapman, held without bail at Bellevue Hospital, entered no plea at his arraignment. Chapman had attempted suicide twice, Herbert Adelerberg, Chapman's court-appointed attorney said yesterday, asking that Chapman be given a psychiatric examination to determine if he could understand the charges...