Word: five
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Federal Judge David V. Kenyon ruled last week that, in a 1981 redistricting plan, the five-member board had deliberately diluted the voting power of the county's 3 million Hispanic residents to protect their own incumbencies. Such gerrymandering, Kenyon declared, violated both the Voting Rights Act and the 14th Amendment. As a remedy, the plaintiffs, who include Hispanic voters and the U.S. Justice Department, will seek the creation of a predominantly Hispanic district and an expansion of the board to seven or possibly nine members. Said Mark Rosenbaum, a lawyer for the plaintiffs: "Now the club is open...
...Five months after being appointed the first woman to run a police department in a major city, Houston police chief Elizabeth M. Watson, 40, has come up with yet another unprecedented development: she confirmed last week that she < was carrying the third child she and her husband, police sergeant Robert Watson, had planned. The baby is due in December. "I'm not sure what I think," said a perplexed member of the force. "I don't know that it makes any difference, but it's weird for your chief to be pregnant." Not to worry, Watson replied...
...meet the demand for fresh troops at Komura, the customary three-month training course at the Manerplaw headquarters was speeded up to five weeks last year. On this soggy summer day, more than 100 youths are in training, most of them between ages 16 and 18. But more than a dozen are no older than 14. All are very raw recruits, children of farmers, sent to the army because it is their duty -- and also because the army provides clothes and two meals...
...Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund, which guarantees about 690,000 home loans each year, has suffered a high rate of defaults because of sloppy supervision and falling real estate values. The fund's net worth has plunged from $8 billion in 1979 to $2.6 billion currently. Kemp has outlined a five-point plan to keep the fund solvent. His proposal would improve management and increase the premiums and fees homebuyers pay on FHA-insured loans. The unfortunate side of the tighter conditions is that as many as 35,000 lower-income families may not be able to afford the higher costs...
...started a harmless saline solution flowing through the tube. Then he sat back and watched the monitor as she pushed a big red button at the base of the machine. Immediately, the saline was replaced by a pain killer; one minute later came the poison potassium chloride. Within five minutes Janet Adkins, an Alzheimer's disease sufferer who feared an excruciating future, was dead of heart stoppage...