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...Aye-that's me," said John...
They were hoisting a glass on the New Frontier last week to Louisiana's Representative Harold McSween, a Democrat with a strong aversion for the Administration's controversial farm bill. For when the important vote came in the House Agriculture Committee, McSween said aye to the bill-and that was just enough to itch it through...
...Burma's fertile Irrawaddy delta, U Thant comes from a cultured, well-to-do family of landowners. Oldest of four brothers, all of whom became prominent in Burmese government and business, he is married to the daughter of an eminent lawyer. They have a 22-year-old daughter, Aye Aye, and a son. Tin Maung ("Tinny"), 19, both taking sociology courses at Manhattan's Hunter College...
Four days of feverish negotiation produced a compromise resolution calling on the Portuguese but not the Angolans to stop the slaughter, but threatening no sanctions against the Portuguese. It passed 9-0, Britain and France abstaining, while the U.S. voted aye with the Russians. Said one U.S. official: "It was our vote on the first Angola resolution that convinced these Afro-Asians that we meant what we preached about colonialism. We had to go along...
...enough for the Administration to win. Seeing that, Republicans began to buckle. Six New Jersey Republicans decided to vote for the bill, fearing that to do otherwise would cost former Labor Secretary James Mitchell the support of labor in his run for the governorship. Five Massachusetts Republicans also voted "aye," if only to lift Southern wages closer to their own and thus slow the exodus of New England's textile industry to the South...