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...slim victories, Ford's aid fight rapidly skidded downhill. In both the Senate and the House, the controlling Democrats held party caucuses and voted strongly against further aid to either Cambodia or South Viet Nam. The Democratic Senators argued the matter for more than two hours as South Dakota's James Abourezk led opposition to aid. He complained that the political maneuvering over Cambodia seemed to center more on "whom to blame" when Cambodia falls than on "ending the slaughter...
...FAILINGS lie not in performance or technical problems, as in many country records, but in the material itself. As in Sold America, Friedman wrote most of the songs, and his true abilities show up here and there. "Rapid City, South Dakota," a disquieting narrative about a teenage boy who abandons his family and his pregnant girl friend in search of nothing better, has more serious value then almost anything Friedman has done. Flashes of his bizarre humor also appear occasionally, as in "Before All Hell Breaks Loose," an ode to the Apocalypse...
...that remarkable legislative record the work of the Jewish lobby? What is it and how does it work? Some Senators, whose lonely votes were cast in vain against the lobby's wishes, including former Senator J. William Fulbright and South Dakota Senator James Abourezk (a Lebanese American and a Christian who is the only Arab in the Senate), see it as an overpoweringly efficient steamroller. Those who have championed its causes tend to view it as an amorphous, largely spontaneous expression of diverse Jewish groups and individuals who respond quickly and spiritedly to issues about which they feel deeply...
Exact Number. The controversy began in late January when Mrs. Ford wrote to State Representative William Kretschmar, thanking him for leading the fight for the ERA in North Dakota's house-a letter that Kretschmar says he used effectively in bringing off a victory. Pleased by the success, she then placed calls to state legislators in Illinois, where the ERA finally got out of committee; to Nevada, where it was subsequently passed by the assembly but defeated in the senate; and to Missouri, where the amendment was passed in the house. A call to Old Friend Barry Goldwater, however...
...already MIRVed a good number of its missiles and hopes eventually to MARV others. To help meet the threat of Soviet MIR vs now being deployed, the Pentagon has ordered major "rewiring" of both the pyramid-shaped nerve center of the Safeguard anti-missile system in North Dakota and the North American Air Defense Command's Cheyenne Mountain headquarters in Colorado, which keeps track of every man-made object in space (3,269 at last count...