Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House statement on South Vietnam said that the major part of the U.S. military program can be completed by the end of 1965 and that 1,000 American personnel can be withdrawn by the end of this year. Congressmen should insist that the withdrawal of 1,000 U.S. personnel within the year, followed by regular withdrawals scheduled to remove all combat troops by the end of 1965, be the test of whether the war can be won. If this schedule cannot be met, the United States can only lost by staying...
Though most Congressmen expressed no objections to the deal, a vocal minority last week began lambasting it. "Why not sell the Russians our tobacco surplus?" said Idaho Democrat Ralph Harding. "They might contract lung cancer." In the Senate, Kentucky Republican John Sherman Cooper declared, "I dislike seeing the United States, great nation that it is, chasing off in a grubby manner after Russian gold." In Coronado, Calif., Goldwater reversed his field, charged that the wheat sale, coming on top of the proposed joint moon venture, is fresh proof that the Kennedys are running "a Soviet-American mutual aid society...
...apparent inability to end the F.A.L.N.'s campaign of terror. Now, with the army under direct attack and with military coups exploding around the Caribbean, Betancourt decided to crack down on the Reds once and for all. He suspended the constitutional immunity of 23 Communist and Castroite Congressmen suspected of being the brains behind the F.A.L.N., ordered their arrest and the roundup of other Red leaders in Venezuela. Convoys of battle-ready infantrymen and paratroopers poured into Caracas to reinforce the police. At week's end six of the 23 Congressmen had been arrested and turned over...
...mission was in Washington seeking a crucial credit extension, Lacerda's statement was the final straw so far as Goulart was concerned. His Justice Minister declared the two state governors "in a true state of belligerence with the federal government," and the President went to Congress. If the Congressmen declare a state of siege, Goulart will assume power to censor the press, ban political meetings, search homes and make arrests without warrants, restrict travel, banish anyone to "any healthful populated area" in Brazil, and seize all state militias...
...march on Washington seemed an effective way to achieve this goal. Along with peace groups on other campuses, Tocsin planned a march: thousands of college students from around the nation would, after considerable study, travel to Washington to participate in a march and rally, and to talk with congressmen, members of the military, and Administration officials...