Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Colorado was one of the brightest spots on the Republican landscape-and it showed what can be done when good candidates are helped by a first-rate state organization to ride a conservative wave...
Only one substantive issue still made campaign headlines-Cuba. Democrats, predictably, leaped to line up behind the President, argued that Cuba was no longer a proper matter for debate. Said Colorado's Democratic Senator John A. Carroll: "At this crucial moment in our history, I earnestly hope that no one will attempt to make political capital of our situation in Cuba or in Berlin." Retorted Carroll's G.O.P. opponent, Republican Peter Dominick: "I strongly supported prohibiting the granting of foreign aid to Cuba in both the 1961 and 1962 foreign aid acts. I have publicly urged the creation...
...defense squadrons to move into forward bases in Canada, permission was refused. Again, when the U.S. asked to arm interceptors at Goose Bay, Labrador, and Stephenville, Newfoundland, with nuclear warheads ferried from Bangor, Me., permission was refused. Officially, Canadian and U.S. airmen at NORAD headquarters in Colorado Springs had nothing to say. "This is politics," said one officer. Privately, they ground their teeth in frustration. The incident did illustrate an interesting point. Across Ontario and Quebec, there is a 300-mile gap in NORAD 's first line of air defense...
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Editor Fired. With eyebrows raised all over Colorado, and a TV-radio editorial reproof by Denver's KLZ ringing in his ears, President Newton finally got to work a fortnight ago and fired Althen from his job as editor. Up sprang student picket lines, with Mitcham bearing a derisive sign: "Senator, I will not silence them!" But the faculty senate, meeting behind doors under police guard, voted confidence in Newton...