Word: districts
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Smith finished eighth in a field of nine candidates running for two house seats. He received 2,000 votes to the winner's 6,000 in a district with 20,000 potential voters. The results were disappointing for Smith who had hoped against hope to get into the runoff, but he was not disillusioned. "For a man with my reputation, a Communist, a damn nigger lover, a radical and a peacenik, I did damn well," Smith beamed as he watched the results trickle in on the television at his home--campaign headquarters for the last three months...
Dressed in their best white shirts, the dozen Viet Cong leaders assembled at dusk in a mud-walled house in the little Delta village of An Lac Thon to mourn a fallen comrade. Only the afternoon before, their district propaganda chief had been killed by a raiding party of U.S. Navy commandos. Now, as they gathered in silence, a security guard of 40 men kept watch in the rain outside, and another 50 Viet Cong waited only 100 yards away. All the guns seemed hardly necessary. As they do with many a Delta village, the Viet Cong considered...
Perhaps the largest official legacy the U.S. is creating for the Micronesians is the fostering of a slow but steady growth of Micronesian political consciousness. At municipal, district and territory-wide levels, the Micronesians have been taught to elect their own officials and legislative bodies, and to begin to establish the appurtenances of self-rule. So far they are only appurtenances, since the word of U.S. High Commissioner William R. Norwood-and ultimately of the U.S. Congress-remains final...
...case that may set a pattern, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has just laid down guidelines designed to reduce the risks assumed by a testifying defendant. In the first place, the court noted, the nature of the previous conviction is important. Eager prosecutors often try to drag in everything on the record. In the future, said the court, it might be well to restrict previous crimes mentioned to those "which reflect adversely on a man's honesty and integrity." Acts of violence, the opinion continued, do not seem to have much to do with...
...Specter's claim of sole possession of reform credentials gone unchallenged. Specter switched parties in 1965 when Democratic leaders refused him the nomination for district attorney or state senator. To win he must attract other defectors, because Philadelphia Democrats enjoy a registration edge over Republicans of 560,000 to 370,000. With the help of an endorsement from the Americans for Democratic Action, he depicts himself as the true legatee of the progressive Democratic administrations of Joseph Clark and Richardson Dilworth. Specter's problem here is that Tate does not present a convenient conservative contrast...