Word: districting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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State Rep. Dennis J. Duffin said Monday, "This issue is an engraved invitation to young men and women in my district to visit New York." Duffin, who opposes the raise, is one of several legislators from districts that border states with drinking ages at 18 years...
...relationship. The result was a lawyer's delight. As of March 1, what used to be the government of China becomes an entity officially designated as "the people on Taiwan"; the U.S. embassy in Taiwan becomes the American Institute, a nonprofit organization incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia; the Taiwanese embassy in Washington becomes the Coordination Council for North American Affairs, an "instrumentality established by the people on Taiwan." Inscrutable though these new "instrumentalities" may appear, they will enable the U.S. and Taiwan to preserve all their previous economic, legal and cultural ties...
...been sputtering for nearly a year. Last spring, intent on consolidating their purer-than-thou socialist revolution, the Vietnamese authorities decided to root out "bourgeois trade" and "dangerous elements," namely ethnic Chinese who had lived for years in northern mining areas, in Danang and in the bustling Cholon district of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City). An estimated 160,000 Chinese refugees fled the country, aboard fishing boats or on foot across Friendship Pass, to resettle on communes in Kwangtung and Kwangsi provinces. Meanwhile, a sporadic series of raids and skirmishes that were to intensify in the next months flared...
...help them realize their longtime dream of breaking away from Tehran's control. Other revolutionary groups disarmed the few military units still loyal to the Shah. In Tehran, shopkeepers happily set out red and pink carnations to celebrate the reopening of the city's long shuttered bazaar district, and children marched off to classes in newly reopened schools...
...Ervin (D-N.C.) proposed and the Senate adopted just such a bill twice already, in 1971 and 1973, but the House never approved it. And there are legal precedents applicable to each question--for example, it seems probable a convention would contain one delegate from each congressional district and two elected at large from each state, using the precedent of the electoral college...