Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foot dragging on impeachment. The Roanoke Times reports that letters are running about 3 to 2 against Butler, but the mail flow is very light. Most important, Butler had the foresight to prepare his constituents for the impeachment process. Says Charles McDowell, Washington correspondent and columnist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "He's spent a lot of time teaching his district the majesty of the thing and bringing his people along." Though political observers feel that disenchanted Nixonites will stay at home in November, nobody thinks he is in real trouble...
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...court's unanimity began to crack with split votes in 1972 on attempts to re-juggle school-district boundaries. The first hint that the balance might decisively tip came last year. By a 4-to-4 vote, the court rejected an appeals court's plan to join Richmond with two suburban school systems for purposes of desegregation; because the vote was a tie, it established no clear precedent...
Justice Powell, a former chairman of the Richmond school board, withdrew from that case. His vote in the Detroit decision last week effectively broke the pattern of steadily expanding antisegregation efforts that the court had woven in decisions over the past 20 years...
...Republicans. Supporters looked on the offer of transcripts as the evidence of innocence they had been begging the President for months to release. Washington Governor Dan Evans said that he felt "like a football fan cheering on the home team. I think the President threw a touchdown pass." The Richmond (Va.) News Leader exulted: "This is an immensely happy development. For the first time, those who want to support the President?those who have clung to vestiges of hope that he was not involved?have something tangible...