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...ORLEANS. District Attorney Jim Garrison, famed for his conspiracy theory about the Kennedy assassination, will go to trial in May on charges of receiving bribes from pinball-machine companies. Former Louisiana Attorney General Jack Gremillion was sentenced last year to 15 years in prison for perjury; he was convicted of lying about stock that he owned in a savings-and-loan corporation that was under investigation by a grand jury...
...growing number of rebel priests who insist that Catholicism can transform society-and save its soul-only by embracing revolution, even a Marxist variety. "We expected revolutionary movement, but never anticipated that it would build up to such intensity at the very heart of the church," says Msgr. Joseph Gremillion, secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Justice and Peace. "We now find that Moscow Communists are farther to the right than many revolutionary Catholics...
...week's end New Orleans authorities had located the rape victim and one of the key witnesses in the case. Louisiana Attorney General Jim Gremillion denounced the Court of Appeals decision as "horrible" and added: "It looks like the court wants to give them [Labat and Poret] a medal for staying in prison." Gremillion will appeal for a rehearing; if that fails, he will go to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...Supreme Court, sputtered Louisiana's Attorney General Jack Gremillion, had taken yet "another step in the total destruction of the rights of states to regulate their internal affairs." Worse, he said, that step "also will undoubtedly lead to universal suffrage...
What angered Gremillion was a ruling by the court last week that upheld the crucial provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Six Southern states-Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia-had demanded that the court declare unconstitutional the law's "triggering device," which prohibits literacy tests in blatantly discriminatory Southern states and authorizes entry of federal registrars to sign up new voters. In refusing to do so, Chief Justice Earl Warren ruled that these "stringent remedies" were "a valid means for carrying out the commands of the 15th Amendment," which empowers Congress to take "appropriate...