Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some moderate Republicans seemed to be wavering. Illinois Republican Congressman John Anderson flatly protested: "I am unwilling to take the risk of war with the Soviet Union by engaging in attacks on their ships and planes. I don't think Viet Nam is that important." Vermont Senator George Aiken, a senior Republican who had deplored the North Vietnamese invasion, criticized the mining as ineffective and called it "brinkmanship...
...warned that the Communists might try to win their victory by persuading Congress or the public of the futility of the war. This was also a familiar plea-perhaps calculated to blunt criticism-but it seems to be effective. One of the Senate's formidable doves. Senator George Aiken, even counseled Nixon critics "not to encourage this war to go on, not to take the side of the enemy...
Some, at first, felt a slightly stunned euphoria about Richard Nixon's planned trip to China, a kind of excitement about impending historic change. Vermont Senator George Aiken, the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, sees the trip instead as setting off a new round of international anxiety...
...India is worried about the U.S. overtures to China and the fact that Pakistan is enjoying a new stature with the White House since playing its role in the secret plans. So now India signs a new pact with Russia. The worries go on and on." It is, said Aiken, as if Nixon had dropped a large stone into a previously stagnant pond. The waves from the impact are widening...
...Scalp, and soon spread to the U.S. where the charter club was organized at Milton, Mass., in 1897. In the intervening years, it had brief periods of popularity and was kept alive during its several down cycles largely through the efforts of the Aiken Preparatory School of Aiken, S.C., which uses it to help teach regulation polo. Explains Carlos Concheso, a New York banker and one of the founders of the U.S.B.P.A.: "It's a good way to develop a feel for the fundamentals, especially for the teamwork that is so necessary...