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Lodge makes no apology for the cutback in his campaign schedule. He simply saw no sense in trying to hit every hamlet and crossroad in the U.S. "I'm not running for alderman," he once exploded. "I'm running for Vice President." Thus, after one trip to Plattsburg, N.Y., where only a handful of people showed up, Lodge complained: "What a waste of time. I was shaking hands with myself...
Hint of Reason. In any case, the Kremlin for years to come will be faced with mounting economic pressures that will at least discourage metal-eating military budgets. A minor $666 million cutback in Soviet defense spending announced last month was, Khrushchev insisted, the result not of economic difficulties but of "considerations of common sense guided by a sincere desire for peace." Moreover, during Russia's Western-aided chemicalization, itself a far more rational exercise than pouring rubles into an ever-increasing steel capacity that Moscow needs mostly for prestige, the note of reasonableness may just possibly persist...
...affronting two members of NATO, the Johnson administration can only have weakened that increasingly shaky alliance by giving de Gaulle further reason to demand independent national action. And the aid cutback will probably be used as effective anti-American propaganda in Latin America to substantiate the Castroite charge that we are bellicose and impotent...
...three years ago, Hughes said, there was a movement away from civil rights and toward disarmament groups. The present movement in the opposite direction, he explained, is just part of "a continual shifting back and forth." Hughes pointed out, however, that President Johnson's cutback in armament expenditures and the unexpectedly early beginning of industrial desecration from military production might give new impetus to the peace movement
...Method's Good." Nonetheless, disarmament negotiators remained hopeful that the East-West arms race might be slowed by the process that Khrushchev calls "mutual example." Thus the Johnson Administration's announcement of a $1.3 billion cutback in the current U.S. military budget was balanced with Moscow's recent claim to have slashed Soviet military expenditures by 4.4%, or $666 million...