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Gold water's comment stemmed from Kennedy's spirited Senate endorsement a week earlier of Reagan's plea for power to veto individual budget appropriations. At the same time, Kennedy gave a smart slap to his own institution: "The budget process is in shambles, the deficit is out of control, and Congress is the problem...
...charges, which, if he is convicted, could keep him imprisoned for the rest of his life. James Larson, his attorney, claimed that "the Government has systematically exaggerated the significance of the information that it believes has been passed by Mr. Whitworth." Justice Department sources told TIME that plea-bargaining discussions were under way with Whitworth's attorneys. If Whitworth pleads guilty and testifies against John Walker, he would not undergo the humiliation of a trial...
...details of the military's communications systems, they said, Walker apparently recruited his son Michael, a clerk aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Nimitz, and several other helpers. Last week, three days before he was to go on trial before Federal Judge Alexander Harvey II in Baltimore, Walker accepted a plea bargain. Government sources confirmed that both he and his son will plead guilty this week...
...girl, $1 million-a-year prostitution ring from a brownstone on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Dubbed the Mayflower Madam by the press, Barrows had been as thrifty and practical as her Pilgrim forebears could have wished, claiming 60% of each call girl's earnings. Last week, after plea bargaining, the trim blond pleaded guilty to promoting prostitution. The surprisingly solicitous arrangement allowed her to keep more than $150,000 in profits from her escort agencies and fined her only $5,000 (she could have been sentenced to a year in jail...
...Arab princes to U.S. corporate kings, will remain secret. Barrows suggested in a news conference that her power ful patrons had pressured Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau into the lenient agreement. Her attorney termed the decision a "kiss on the wrist." Barrows depicted herself as a Robin Hood, who by plea bargaining had saved "a lot of innocent people" from being exposed...