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Lawyers for Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr. have begun plea bargaining with Federal prosecutors over the 14 drug and perjury charges on which Mr. Barry is scheduled to go on trial on Monday.

A20 Plea Talks on Spy Suspect Prosecutors and lawyers for Robert P. Hanssen, the F.B.I. agent accused of spying for Moscow, were said to have begun plea bargain talks.

It might have begun with Armenia, by considering America's plea to open its borders with it.

The three who were to have begun their prison terms this week agreed to plea bargains with the court, confessing to their involvement in return for more lenient sentences.

Plea bargains have been common for more than a century, but lately they have begun to put the trial system out of business in some courtrooms.

The Pentagon has begun considering Georgian pleas for help to re-equip and train its army, with the use of more sophisticated weapons.

More than one task force has begun its report with a plea not to "shoot the messenger"; one created buttons saying this, and members wore them into the meeting with the senior team.

Linda Poust-Lopez recently took over as the judge at the Bronx HTIC, and according to a lawyer familiar with the court, under her tenure the court has begun offering far more lenient plea bargains.

Conversations had begun months earlier about appeal pleas being shown outside the traditional post-news bulletin slots.

I finish with a plea for a focus upon a programme that has begun but is far from finished, especially as regards the financial and trade regulations concerning Northern Cyprus.

Earlier Sunday, Mr. Chen rejected repeated pleas to end the hunger strike he had begun to protest what he called his politically motivated arrest.