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...backs must show de Gaulle not simply that the French people desire a partial return to the regular hurlu-burlu of Parliamentary politics, but that they want de Gaulle to show an interest in these processes, which he has, so far, in his career, held in contempt...
...Meredith's path when he attempted to register at the University of Mississippi campus at Oxford (TIME, Sept. 28). In the interval between the two confrontations, impor tant events took place in the New Orleans courtroom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Faced with contempt charges, the state college board capitulated and promised to register Meredith. To keep Barnett from interfering again, the court issued a sweeping order enjoining him, plus a list of lesser state officials, from arresting, prosecuting, injuring, harassing, threatening, obstructing or interfering with Meredith...
...Governor-Warren Terry McCray of Indiana, in 1924-has ever been sentenced to imprisonment under federal law, and he was convicted of misuse of the mails, a felony that had nothing to do with a conflict of federal and state powers. No state Governor has ever been sentenced for contempt of a federal court. Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus made an ugly mess in Little Rock in 1957, but he did not defy any specific federal court order directed at him, and as soon as the Federal Government intervened with force he scuttled off to the sidelines...
...Lull. The following morning, Governor Barnett was scheduled to appear before the Court of Appeals in New Orleans to answer to charges of contempt. As was expected, he stayed in Mississippi. The court tried him in absentia, found him guilty, gave him four days to "purge himself" of the contempt, and set a stern penalty if he failed to comply: $10,000-a-day fine, and confinement in the custody of the U.S. Attorney General...
Within hours, the Justice Department was in court again. It did not accept Governor Barnett's dare and ask for a contempt citation against him. It asked, instead, for proceedings against the three top university officials, who had been superseded in authority by the Governor. But Federal Judge Sidney Mize, who had refused Meredith's pleas before, once again decided for Mississippi, holding that since the university officials had been preempted of their duties, they were not in contempt...