Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon announced that he would not appeal the case to the Supreme Court. Instead, he would make available a summary of each of the subpoenaed tapes and would allow Senator John Stennis of Mississippi to listen to the tapes to see if the summary was accurate. There was no reason for Prosecutor Cox to accept that unilateral arrangement, since he had a far better chance of getting the tapes themselves under Sirica's order. So Cox objected?and was fired by Nixon. Declared Cox after he was ousted: "Whether ours shall continue to be a government of laws...
...lined with shanty houses, is hardly the stuff of legends. With most of its residents on welfare or receiving some other form of public assistance, Brooklyn has depended for its existence chiefly on the raffish trace of night life it provides blacks and whites who after hours cross the Mississippi River from nearby St. Louis, Mo., to visit the village's all-night bars. Recently Brooklyn gained another kind of notoriety when it became the scene of a drama full of Western overtones and old-style bravado. TIME Correspondent Barrett Seaman reports...
...country. The study tested the legislatures for efficiency, service to constituents, length of sessions and other factors. "Interestingly, those legislatures that were ranked lower than Massachusetts were mostly those states that have been dominated by a one-party system longer than we have," the Massachusetts Republican State Committee noted. "Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Vermont, Kansas, and other states completely enswathed with a one-party structure of government (Democratic or Republican) are those same states with less effective legisltures than we have in the Commonwealth." On the other hand, those states where parties were in realtive balance showed the most...
...Arkansas plant is one of three proposed Middle South plants now under attack from environmentalists. Louisiana and Mississippi Power and Light Companies are both planning nuclear plants, and both plants are being contested in hearings before the Atomic Energy Commission on the grounds that their safety features are inadequate...
...Crimson also reported last week that three Middle South subsidiaries--Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Power and Light Companies--have work forces that are only 5.6 per cent black and 16.6 per cent women...