Word: district
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...position that the U.S. had a firm commitment to Israel's security. In New York, Arab Spokesman M. T. Mehdi talked darkly of the "frustration of many Arabs with American politicians who have sold the Arab people of Palestine to the Zionist Jewish voters." That suggested a motive, but District Attorney Evelle Younger and State Attorney General Thomas Lynch wanted to avoid any such discussion until the trial. Thus they were aghast, and said so, when Mayor Yorty went before a news conference to divulge what he described as the contents of Sirhan's private notebooks, found in the Sirhan...
...unstable minds is the rising hyperbole of U.S. political debate. Race, Viet Nam, crime- all lend themselves to verbal overkill, not so much by candidates as by extremists: the John Birchers, the Rap Browns, the most ardent war critics, the Ku Kluxers. The evidence is everywhere. In Dallas, Assistant District Attorney William Alexander snarls on a TV show: "Earl Warren shouldn't be impeached-he should be hanged." Cries Rap Brown: "How many whites did you kill today?" Lyndon Johnson is routinely excoriated as a mass murderer. Robert Kennedy was branded by San Francisco hippies as a "fascist...
...Party, a doctrinaire faction whose prime asset is its most illustrious member, Fourth Republic Premier Pierre Mendès-France, 61. It seems likely that Mitterrand's party and the Communists will each enter a full slate of competing first-round candidates in France's 487 electoral districts. But they are likely to combine forces and throw their votes in the final round to the strongest candidate from either party in each district, the other candidate withdrawing-a maneuver that the leftists and Communists used with great effectiveness in the 1967 national elections...
...loses, he is already in uniform and stuck. If, like Muhammad Ali, he refuses to be inducted in the first place, he risks up to five years and a $10,000 fine after trial as a draft dodger.* In San Francisco two weeks ago, a federal district court did rule that a potential draftee need not wait until induction before he challenges his classification in the court, but that ruling is still to be tested in higher courts...
...Federal Government curtail marijuana use by requiring those who deal in the drug to register and pay a tax? Since possession of pot is illegal in every state-even when the tax is paid-and since the name of anyone buying a tax stamp is made public, U.S. District Court Judge Frank Theis ruled last month in Wichita, Kans., that practically speaking the law cannot be enforced constitutionally. Following the reasoning of the U.S. Supreme Court, which found similar defects in tax laws dealing with guns and gamblers, Theis held that enforcement of the marijuana tax violated the constitutional guarantee...