Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the moment that New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison dealt himself into the Kennedy assassination controversy last fall, he has forced up the ante with one bizarre theory after another. First he announced a plot involving New Orleans Businessman Clay Shaw, ex-Airline Pilot David Ferrie and Lee Harvey Oswald, eventually linking them with Jack Ruby. Later he charged that a murder team of anti-Castro Cubans had planned the killing, using Oswald as a decoy. Next Big Jim claimed that the CIA and FBI were aware of these plots and were covering up. So, too, he said, were...
Then, too, everyone-except Jim Garrison-could see the case closing in on the 6-ft. 6-in. district attorney. The press and TV continued to dismantle his imagined maze of Machiavellianism: secret codes that supposedly led to Ruby's telephone number, the elusive and probably fictional "Clay Bertrand," the Cuban intrigue. In New Orleans, where the ambitious D.A. is widely feared and conspiratorial theories are as highly relished as crayfish bisque, the Crime Commission demanded a sweeping state inquiry into Garrison's office...
...purpose of the legislation was to set guidelines for state legislatures in drawing up congressional districts. Congress has always had the power to set guidelines, but until the Supreme Court one-man one-vote ruling, state legislatures enjoyed wide latitude in setting the district boundaries and apportioning population. It was a latitude more often abused than...
...compromise bill would have frozen present districts, except where a special census was taken, until after the 1970 national census. After that, no state's largest and smallest districts could differ by more than 10 per cent. The proposed compromise plan was outrageously different from either the House or the Senate versions of the bill. The House voted for the 10 per cent requirement after the next census and imposed a 30 per cent limitation on district differences until then. The Senate had voted for an immediate 10 per cent limitation starting the next session of Congress...
...fear handing their own authority on D.C. matters to the local Negro majority, and local real estate and business interests who benefit from the low taxes--have stymied progress by introducing the President's plan in the form of a regular bill so that it could come under the District Committee and be amended and, in essence, defeated...