Word: district
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More important, however, the trial has tied up the number one United States District Attorney in the most overloaded federal district in the country and received extremely critical press throughout the country...
...grows more threadbare by the month. In fact, Lindsay has been a man without a party ever since last spring's New York mayoral primaries, when the Republicans denied him their nomination. Lindsay, the urbanist out of St. Paul's, Yale and Manhattan's silk-stocking district, ran for re-election as an Independent and a Liberal Party candidate. Now he presides over a city hall aswarm with Democrats, Kennedyites and peaceniks...
...scene in New York's Criminal Courts Building last week was shocking and absurd. At one end of the dingy courtroom, silver-haired State Supreme Court Justice John M. Murtagh, 58, sat under the inscription "In God We Trust," sternly trying to keep order. Near by, Assistant District Attorney Joseph Phillips, a tough, hard-working prosecutor, doggedly tried to follow the guideposts of long-established court procedure...
...South Vietnamese armor stood guard. In Hue, flak-jacketed ARVN Rangers carrying M-16s mingled with the holiday crowds. Memories of the 1968 holocaust were very much on the military's mind, but there was optimism as well. In the delta's lush Ba Xuyen province, a district chief discounted chances of a VC attack: "We've driven them out and I think they know better than to return." Earlier in the week, the enemy had mounted a minioffensive: 70 cities and bases were shelled or mortared one night, 44 the next. But as Tet neared...
Calling the Chicago Seven "highly sophisticate, highly educated" but "evil men," attorney Thomas A. Foran concluded the government's summary to the U. S. District Court jury of ten women and two men. He spoke after defense attorney William M. Kunsiler told them that "It is your responsibility to see that men can still speak boldly and remain the masters of their souls...