Word: abm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Panofsky staunchly opposed the ABM system while it was being debated in the Senate in 1969, and he was asked to testify before the Senate Sub-Committee investigating the system...
Assistant Secretary of Defense David Packard once appeared before the Committee while Panofsky was in Washington, and in response to a question from 'Senator Fulbright, said that he had consulted Panofsky about the ABM and Panofsky...
Panofsky was then called to clarify Packard's statement, and in no uncertain terms, he told the Committee that the only time Packard had mentioned the ABM to him was in the men's room of the San Francisco airport, and then Panofsky had expressed an entirely negative view...
...President possesses and created new problems for himself. Despite his claims of having achieved an ideological "working majority" in the Senate, few major issues have been close enough to be affected by a minor shift. An exception was the 50-50 tie by which an attempt to block ABM was defeated. The only major fight he lost by a narrow vote was the nomination of G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court; the four appropriations bills Nixon vetoed had all been passed by overwhelming margins, and he was able to sustain the veto in two cases. The Democrats whom Nixon...
...John Barrymore estate in Beverly Hills, complete with six telephones, no working clocks, a zoo of stuffed animals and a desk full of middle-class repair bills. She has taken up the signal causes of her generation-sleeping-in with the Indians at Alcatraz, demonstrating against the ABM. But just as she has nagging doubts about her acting, she is not sure she is going about her reformist duties in quite the right way. During the shooting of Soldier Blue she organized a Moratorium Day demonstration in Mexico. She recalls comically: "We met in a drugstore, hatching plans over sundaes...