Word: district
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...headline-filled years, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison has made it clear that his assassination-conspiracy case against Businessman Clay Shaw involves another, unnamed defendant: the Warren Commission. To prove his contention that Shaw and others had been part of a plot to shoot President Kennedy, Garrison needed to disprove the commission's findings that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted "alone and unassisted" on November 22, 1963. He also hinted often that elements of the Federal Government itself?particularly the CIA?were somehow involved in the assassination. Last week, as testimony in the case finally started, Garrison...
...shown a steely sense of mission in handing down controversial decisions. He was charged with "coddling the Communists" when he blocked a New York City teacher-loyalty campaign in the 1950s, and he was even more the target of acrimony when he ordered the integration of hostile all-white districts in 1963. But after last fall's bitter, 36-day New York City teacher strike, he was the only major participant to emerge with his reputation intact. It was Allen's plan to place a state trustee in charge of a troubled experimental district that eventually brought...
President Nixon's suggestion that "preventive detention" would be one good remedy for crime in the District of Columbia met with sharply divided reaction on Capitol Hill. West Virginia's Democratic Senator Robert Byrd applauded the idea of pretrial jailing of accused criminals thought likely to break the law while out on bail. "Unless we have a safe society," said Byrd, "we are not going to have a free society." But North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin Jr., a member of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee and usually no supporter of libertarian causes, was incensed. Preventive detention, he said...
...reason for the problem is crowded court calendars. In the District of Columbia, for example, it takes at least ten months to bring a man to trial. And the longer the accused is free, the stronger the chance that he will be arrested again. Senator Ervin has argued that if the time between arrest and trial lasted only from six to eight weeks, there would be no clamor for preventive detention. Even those who favor the idea believe a man should be detained for only a limited time-which would mean that the courts would have to provide quicker trials...
...absence of proof to the contrary, said Wright, the literature accompanying the E-meters must be treated as Scripture. To bolster his opinion, Judge Wright pointed out that Hubbard's organization is incorporated as a church in the District of Columbia and that its ministers are even qualified to perform marriages and burial rites...