Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hoan's was not the only voice raised against Hanoi last week. Earlier the regime had been stung by a remark by a member of a delegation of nine U.S. Congressmen who were journeying to Viet Nam to discuss the refugee situation. Massachusetts Democrat Robert Drinan told reporters the...
Some critics of plea bargaining complain that criminals get off too lightly. Others insist that defendants get railroaded out of their right to a trial by prosecutors who "overcharge," i.e., charge defendants with worse crimes than they committed, to force them into guilty pleas. What everyone agrees on is that...
The heating oil subsidy also undermined the U.S.'s pleas for unity among the oil importing nations. Last week Energy Secretary James Schlesinger said that the U.S. has met its pledge to the 20-nation International Energy Agency in Paris to cut consumption of petroleum by 1 million bbl...
So ended last week the life of John Spenkelink, 30, a wiry drifter and habitual criminal, after a frenzied week of final appeals, to the Florida Supreme Court, to the Federal Appeals Court and to the U.S. Supreme Court. He had won two brief stays, then lost them both because...
When the issue comes to public conflict it is customarily fought out in the wrong terms: an attempt to link one specific act of real-life violence to one specific act of TV violence. About the best documented instance, from the viewpoint of anti-TV forces, occurred in 1966 when...