Word: american
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason to hope, then, that the tedium of setting up ground rules will be kept to a minimum and that the Helsinki talks really signal what Rogers calls "possibly the most important negotiations that we will be involved in." Even partial success could yield a more significant Soviet-American agreement than the 1963 limited ban on nuclear testing...
...chiefs. He sent a pointed message to Congress, prodding it to speed up action on his legislative proposals. This week he expects to go into New Jersey and Virginia to provide some purely partisan support for Republican gubernatorial candidates. He also plans a speech outlining new directions in Latin American policy...
Republican Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee said he thought that "we might have American troops out of combat within a year." Vermont's Senator George Aiken made a similar prediction. Those views were given added weight by House Republican Leader Gerald Ford's estimate that half of all U.S. troops will be out of Viet Nam by mid-1970. Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott contended that the U.S. is approaching a de facto ceasefire. He urged that the U.S. go a step farther and declare that "on a certain date we will stop firing...
...Dallas, he decried unrest on American campuses as the work of a "minority of pushy youngsters and middle-aged malcontents." Last week the Vice President complained in Jackson, Miss., that the South has too long been "the punching bag for those who characterize themselves as liberal intellectuals." Maybe he had a point about the South, but he outdid himself in New Orleans by saying of the Oct. 15 Moratorium: "A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals...
...responsible person would propose that the President play Russian roulette with U.S. security.' Agnew seemed to have overlooked the fact that Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke and 42 other Senators were already promoting a resolution in favor of a bilateral recess in MIRV testing pending the start of Soviet-American arms control talks. The measure had seemed to be stuck until Agnew spoke out. Now Majority Leader Mike Mansfield wants the Foreign Relations Committee to begin hearings on it as soon as possible-a move that would discomfort the Administration...