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A. This tragedy came about notwithstanding the efforts of our administration to stop the return of Mr. Aquino when there were confirmed warnings that there was going to be an attempt against his life. Unfortunately, Mr. Aquino did not listen to our pleas. We are at the point where we...
"Bok said he saw the logic in our pleas--he would do as the committee asked and remove Harvard morally and financially from the arena of mammoth discrimination," said McDonald. "The letter was a victory cast down from heaven."
Then the hostage drama was suddenly, even suspiciously, over. Despite the strongest U.S. pleas to a close ally, it seemed that the killers were about to escape scot-free. All the anger and revulsion that Americans felt at that prospect were summed up by U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Nicholas Veliotes...
Father (Miki Manojlovic) is a functionary in the Yugoslav Department of Labor and, whenever he gets the chance, a dedicated philanderer. During a tryst on a train, he deflects pleas of love from a randy gym teacher with an offhand "Who loves anybody in this madhouse?" Before you can say...
Despite pleas by local officials and some students, the Faculty Senate at the University of Massachusetts voted Thursday against establishing a jail on campus.