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...roses had faded from his chubby cheeks, and Billie Sol Estes looked like a beaten man when he appeared before a federal grand jury in El Paso last week. Estes showed up toting neatly tied bundles of magazines and newspapers to serve as props for the plea of Attorney John Cofer, who argued that the reams of unfavorable publicity about his client made a fair hearing impossible. Unmoved, the grand jury handed down a new indictment against Estes, which raised the total number of his pending charges to 16 counts of mail fraud, twelve counts of illegally transporting securities...
...completely unacceptable" and "a complete abdication." At week's end, both groups went on strike. Pan American got a temporary restraining order from a federal judge to halt the strike. But the order did not apply to the Eastern flight engineers, who stayed on strike despite a new plea from President Kennedy...
...Last Plea. Vice Premier Belkacem Krim of the Moslem F.L.N. flew in from his headquarters in Tunis to confer with members of the Provisional Government at Le Rocher Noir, the administrative center near Algiers. If anyone could talk to the killers and terrorists of the S.A.O. it was Krim, who had last appeared in Algeria in 1957 as a leader of the F.L.N. underground, which was spreading death and destruction among the Europeans. The S.A.O. had sworn never to allow an F.L.N. leader to enter Algeria alive, but the rightist newspaper L'Anrore hailed his presence and the prospect...
...twelve continued their treeks to the athletic grounds, but they complained about it. "There is no reason why climate-harrassed throats shoul be further insulted by the steady cloud of dust and filth that rises from the pavement on the way to Soldiers' Field," they grumbled, and issued a plea for "the effective use of an oil-cart on the street near the field...
...Nazi mass murder of 6,000,000 Jews, his appeal of the verdict was considered for nine weeks by the Israeli Supreme Court, and then denied, with the remark that even death was not an adequate penalty for Eichmann. As a last recourse, Eichmann made a personal plea for clemency to Israel's President Izhak Ben-Zvi. Within 34 hours a prison commissioner told Eichmann that his plea had been rejected. He grimaced slightly, said, "Jawohl...