Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week other Democratic and Republican Senators joined in the attack. The unkindest cut came from a Republican, New York's Jacob Javits, who accused Nixon of continuing the "sterile and unsuccessful" policies of the Johnson Administration. "The old myths, the old self-delusions and the old phraseology recur again and again," Javits charged. He suggested that personnel changes have not gone deep enough because Ambassadors Ellsworth Bunker and Henry Cabot Lodge, General Creighton Abrams and others associated with Johnson's Viet Nam policies remain in key posts...
...were well reasoned. Even so, they brought the issue no closer to a political solution in Congress or a popular verdict in the nation. The reason is that neither the critics nor the advocates of the ABM can argue with any certainty just what kind of attack the Russians or the Chinese may be capable of mounting in the next decade...
...middle of the hearings, twelve members of a local guerrilla theater troupe staged a searing attack on welfare. Ignoring cries of "You can't do this!" from Javits, they portrayed a poor family set upon by welfare officials and harassed by a social worker who carried a whip and shouted, "Where are those dirty little Mexicans?" In the bitter finale, performed directly in front of Javits, the social worker stuck out her sweater-stuffed rear end and members of the aid-seeking family lined up and kissed...
...least for this year. In March, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Robert Finch, together with Agriculture Secretary Clifford Hardin and Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, submitted the food-stamp proposal to the President. Fine, said Nixon, but where will we get the money? Though the President planned an attack on hunger in 1971, there was no room in his tight budget for the millions of dollars needed to start the program in 1970. As months passed, the hunger question became a prickly issue in the White House. Some advisers sided with Presidential Counselor Arthur Burns, who opposed any attack...
...ancient rhythm is unchanged and unchanging, the city is in fact a capital at war, a war that rages daily along the Suez Canal, only 70 miles away. The war shows?in the shabby, weary, olive-drab ambiance of the city, in the preparations it has made against attack. Hundreds of brick blast walls stand on sidewalks in front of doorways. The entrances to a few public buildings are heavily sandbagged. Windows and car headlights are painted blue?the ancient color for warding off the evil eye?to conform to blackout regulations. In erratic fashion, street lights...