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Diaz says that Ellis was arrested in 1988 in what the Drug Enforcement Administration called "the largest methamphetamine bust in history" (an interesting statistic that Diaz failed to drop in his interview with Ellis), and that Ellis "pleaded guilty to a reduced charge, using a telephone 'to facilitate a drug trafficking offense.
Selznick pleaded to Hays, with a touch of irony, perhaps, “I do not feel that your giving me permission to use `damn' in this one sentence will open up the floodgates.”
One group trapped on the 83rd floor pleaded repeatedly to know whether the fire was above or below them, specifically asking if 911 operators had any information from the outside or from the news.
It doesn't help Kris Kringle's cause that a 71-year-old mall Santa Claus in Washington state recently pleaded guilty to raping and molesting four children between the ages of 1 and 7. The mall Santa's real name is--no joke--Ronald McDonald.
"We have to be able to take yes for an answer," he pleaded.