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...ruling followed a four-day preliminary hearing requested by District Attorney Jim Garrison...
...city's military authorities to dissolve the Duma, the elected parliament that he had created. The leaders of the Duma, among them a fiery lawyer and orator named Alexander Kerensky, defied the Czar and sat down to form a coalition provisional committee to take charge. The garrison of Petrograd backed up the Duma, and it was the commander of Petrograd, with the support of all the other army commanders, who sent word to the Czar demanding that he abdicate. Surprisingly, the Czar meekly obeyed...
Want to Bet? What did it all have to do with the assassination? Garrison contended that Shaw, who claims that he is innocent, used the alias of Clay Bertrand, a name that had been introduced into the Warren Commission report by Louisiana Attorney Dean Andrews Jr. Andrews, who frequently defends accused homosexuals, said "Bertrand" called him on the afternoon of the assassination and asked him to defend Oswald. While the FBI says that Andrews admitted he made the whole thing up, he insists that the story is true-but he does not say that Shaw and "Bertrand" are the same...
That still left the D.A. a long way from establishing anything except that Oswald kept some odd company during his 1963 stay in New Orleans. Still, Garrison remains certain that he has something big. "I have no doubt about the case," he said. "There will be more arrests, and they will hold up. If you bet against me, you will lose...
Redouble the Blood. So far, Britain has shown no sign that it will abandon plans to withdraw its 14,000-man garrison-despite the pleas of South Arabia's Foreign Minister, Sheik Mohammed Farid, who was in London last week asking for at least a token British force to guarantee the peace. Plainly worried about Nasser's intentions, the U.S. State Department warned against "unprovoked aggression" in Aden. A three-man United Nations team is to arrive later this month to explore ways to smooth Aden's road to independence. But FLOSY's Mackawee...