Word: district
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...District of Columbia (3): A Negro vote of 63% and phalanxes of Federal employees make this Humphrey's lone safe harbor...
...Ninh was only the latest in a series of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese moves that have been puzzling to the Allies. The Communists continue a buildup of forces around Due Lap, a district capital of little strategic importance that was the scene last month of the summer's heaviest fighting. Though they have already lost more than 800 men in their unsuccessful attacks on Due Lap, they keep plugging away...
Despite that warning, few readers of the document that was made public last week are likely to be prepared for the results of the three-month investigation by the Philadelphia police and the district attorney's office. Reading like a scene from last year's off-Broadway prison expose, Fortune and Men's Eyes, it is a depressing catalogue of homosexual assaults in the city's prisons and the sheriff's vans. Virtually no young man of slight build who enters prison is safe from attack, the investigators found. Most are overwhelmed and raped...
...country.* Whether they opposed war in general or the Viet Nam war in particular, whether they burned their draft cards or simply refused to go, each was convicted under the same clause of the Selective Service Act. Yet sentences vary enormously, depending upon the attitudes of the federal district judges who hear the cases. Some defendants are put on probation and will probably never go to prison at all; others draw the maximum sentence of five years and a $10,000 fine. Last year the average sentence was 32.1 months...
...main issue in the dispute was whether or not a community-run school committee in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn had the right to transfer teachers out of its district. In an unusual show of solidarity, the teachers' union, School Superintendent Bernard Donovan and the central board of education all insisted that it did not. Although not opposed in theory to community control of schools, the union insisted that teachers be protected from arbitrary dismissals. The conflict degenerated into an ugly battle that had racist overtones...