Word: redrawing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sold-Out Country? At week's end the conferees were reported in full accord on 1) a new fisheries treaty that will redraw the old Rhee line, 2) a trade agreement under which Japan will postpone repayment of South Korea's $45 million trade debt and increase imports of Korean raw materials, 3) a redefinition of the rights of the half-million Koreans living in Japan, and 4) reparations, which will probably come to $300 million in grants and $200 million in long-term credits...
...Coop was forced to redraw plans for the new building last spring when a request for a zoning variance, permitting off-street loading of trucks, was refused. Morrill estimated last night that the resulting design changes have cost the Coop a "substantial" amount of money and six months' time...
Gubernatorial Nominee Percy wanted to rid his party of its West Side Blocmen. He saw his chance in an astonishing political situation. Owing to self-defeating political maneuvers, Illinois did not redraw its house districts as required by the state constitution. Thus candidates for all 177 house seats this year must run in a statewide, at-large election. Both Democrats and Republicans have nominated only 118 candidates for those seats, so that neither party will be able to elect more than a two-thirds majority...
What a mess! Required by constitutional amendment to redraw Illinois' political districts, the state legislature fussed and fought, finally had the only redistricting bill that it did pass vetoed by Democratic Governor Otto Kerner. Result: this year candidates for all 177 seats in the Illinois assembly must run in a statewide, at-large election. Moreover, a Republican-Democratic agreement since regularized by law prohibits either party from nominating more than 118 candidates-amounting precisely to a two-thirds assembly majority...
...Georgia were pending in Texas and Maryland. Close on the heels of the decision, Maryland's Governor J. Millard Tawes asked for a postponement of the state's May 19 house primaries in the hope that a special legislative committee would be able to redraw some notably inequitable district lines...