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...should certainly not punish those whose consciences drove them into exile rather than to Vietnam," McGovern said in a plea for total amnesty...
...Risher, a nurse, countered that her relationship did not interfere with raising her son. But the jury of ten men and two women, apparently moved by Jimmy's emotional plea to "get my brother out of this particular home," granted custody to the father. The verdict is a legal setback for gay-rights activists, who contend that homosexuality should not be considered an obstacle to being a good parent...
...week ago Sara Jane Moore, 45, switched her plea in a San Francisco courtroom from innocent to guilty of the charge of attempting to assassinate the President. Before he would accept Moore's new plea, Judge Samuel Conti reviewed testimony that she had fired a single shot at Ford as he left the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco on Sept. 22, missing him by only 5 ft. Conti also reread a psychiatric report describing Moore as competent to change her plea despite having a "hysterical personality disorder," and a 25-year history of mental illness...
...acts which we regard as abominations." Moynihan argued that the Assembly "has been trying to pretend that it is a Parliament, which it is not," and acidly (but accurately) observed that "most of the governments represented do not themselves govern by consent of their citizens." He then quoted a plea by dissident Russian Scientist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Andrei Sakharov for a worldwide amnesty for political prisoners. At this, the Soviet delegate, Yakov Malik strode out in protest...
...Asian and Latin American nations but failed to attack repression of liberties in either the Soviet Union or several nations of Black Africa. In fact, the delegates were forced to face the question of Soviet repression principally by a gutsy Nairobi-based Christian newspaper, Target, which printed a smuggled plea to the World Council from Moscow Priest Gleb Yakunin and Layman Lev Regelson. The pair complained that the council had made no protest when "the Russian Orthodox Church was half destroyed" in the early 1960s, and pleaded for a crusade against persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union...