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...five-year career as an elected official, Jim Garrison, 45, the larger-than-life (6 ft. 6 in.) district attorney of New Orleans, has tilted at windmills and gin mills, chastened Bourbon Street's once-famed B-girls, scourged the judiciary and battled with the mayor. More recently, he added the Warren Commission report to his mandate. Predictably, Garrison's investigation of "several plots" to kill President Kennedy has yielded the most rococo tale yet to emerge from that tragic day in Dallas...
...Garrison, who looks like TV's Perry Mason but all too clearly writes his own scripts, announced last week that he had long since "solved" the identities of the plotters, who-said he-had launched their conspiracy in New Orleans. "We know," he told reporters, "what cities were involved, how it was done in the essential respects, and the individuals involved. We are going to be able to arrest every human involved," adding conspiratorially, "that is, every human involved who is still alive...
...made no arrests? Well, said Garrison, there was a lot of "work on details of evidence" that had yet to be done before he could be sure of obtaining convictions. Arrests might take place, he predicted, in a few months or in 30 years. "I don't mean to be cryptic," he said cryptically, "but that is the way it is." Besides that, arrests of some of the conspirators might cause the others to commit suicide, and how could he arrest a dead...
...Garrison faced that problem when one of his prime suspects, David Ferrie, 48, a onetime airline pilot, expired. The D.A., naturally enough, called it suicide and pounced upon an apparent suicide note that had been written some time before. Coroner Nicholas Chetta, however, labeled the death the result of a cerebral hemorrhage, most likely brought on by "overexcitement and hypertension." Indeed, Ferrie, nervous, sick, probably homosexual-with thick rug-like pieces of fabric replacing eyebrows, lost either by accident or disease-had known that Garrison was after him and, said his physician, had been "disturbed and depressed...
...value as a fixed aircraft carrier, situated in the Mediterranean 58 miles south of Sicily, has declined ever since the advent of missiles and long-range jets. As part of their general pullback, the British announced that they plan to remove fully two-thirds of their Malta garrison -or about 2,900 troops-by 1971. Shocked at this desertion, the Maltese argued that the loss of their chief source of income would bring economic ruin, boosting unemployment by nearly 20%. Striking back with fury, they prepared legislation last week to evict the British from the island...