Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into a knee-deep mass of rubble. Parked cars spun into the air and landed in twisted heaps. A crowded Chinese restaurant across the street collapsed in smoke and flames, its floor strewn with still bodies and flopping forms of the wounded. Dozens of pedestrians in a nearby shopping district were flattened by the blast. Where the car had been, there was only a smoking pit, two feet deep. Three charred bodies lay near by, and bits of pulverized flesh littered the street...
...programs of the Great Society: President Johnson's $1.3 billion education bill to provide federal aid to primary and secondary schools. The measure would grant $100 million for textbooks and library books, $100 million for supplemental education centers such as labmobiles, and $1 billion-plus for public school districts to spend as they see fit. For a district to qualify, 3% or more of its pupils would have to be "needy" (from families with less than $2,000 income)-which takes in approximately 90% of the nation's school districts...
...week's end the rebels were still falling back on Faradje and Aba. But they were not everywhere in retreat. At dawn in midweek, Simbas made a determined attack on Paulis that was beaten off only when 28 planes hit the rebel positions with rockets. Farther south, the district around Fizi was held by Simbas, and a resident wrote bitterly to a Leopoldville newspaper that "government forces would have been here long ago" if only "there had been white hostages in Fizi...
Restoration v. Reabolition. On the other hand, no one yet has the slightest evidence suggesting how many people who never commit murder are in fact deterred by the death penalty. The electric chair* thus remains in 23 states and the District of Columbia, the gas chamber in ten states, the noose in six, the firing squad in one (Utah). Indeed, ten abolitionist states have restored the death penalty in the past, usually after some brutal crime. Missouri did so in 1919, for example, after two hoodlums killed two policemen in a gunfight. Conversely, Oregon provided abolitionists with an unexpected argument...
...sold on abolition once more that the idea won the full support of the state's leading clergymen, newspapers, politicians, law-enforcement officers and finally the voters, who killed the death penalty (gas chamber) by nearly 5 to 3 in a referendum last November. Multnomah County (Portland) District Attorney George Van Hoomissen summed up Oregon's attitude: "The specter of an innocent man unjustly executed is constantly in my mind...