Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...duel with 57 Communist terrorists. In July, a Thai army unit, sweeping the region's Route 5, reported killing 18 guerrillas and arresting 140 suspects. A few weeks later, a Thai-Malay patrol moving in Land Rovers through a jungle gorge in southern Thailand's Betong district was ambushed, and ten of its 15 members killed. The attack shocked both Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur into action. Fortnight ago, Malaysian Home Minister Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman and Thailand's Deputy Defense Minister Dawee Chullasapaya sat down in Bangkok for a series of conferences to strengthen joint cooperation...
...Hassel failed to consult him before ruling-of all things-that labor union organizers could enter military camps to recruit career enlisted men and officers for their ranks. The third resignation came from Major General Giinther Pape, the commander of West Germany's Ruhr-encompassing Third Defense District, who is a close friend of Trettner...
...District Attorney Evelle Younger, 48, of Los Angeles County, was deeply concerned by the Supreme Court's Miranda decision (TIME, June 24). Like many another law-enforcement officer, Younger feared that because of the high court's holding that every suspect must be reminded "prior to questioning" of his right to silence and to legal counsel, there would be a virtual end to all voluntary confessions and a sharp and disheartening decline in successful prosecutions...
Back in the state prison, and five years worse off than before, Patton filed a petition for habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court. There the state argued that no one had forced him to seek a second trial, that if it turned out badly for him, it was his own fault. In asking for a new trial, argued States Attorney Theodore Brown, Patton must be deemed to have consented to wiping out the consequences of his first trial. Furthermore, said Brown, a defendant is not entitled as a matter of law to credit against his second sentence. Besides, since...
...Wheeling, W. Va., U.S. District Court Judge Robert Maxwell refused to grant a new trial to an Ohioan convicted of interstate transportation of a stolen car. According to Defendant Arthur Kennell, the trial judge should have excluded the testimony of an FBI agent who had opened the car door and copied the serial number. That evidence, argued Kennell, violated his 4th Amendment guarantee against "unreasonable searches and seizures." Judge Maxwell ruled otherwise-on the reasonable ground that Kennell did not own the car that was searched...