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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...showdown Congress in which the partisan stakes are the presidency itself. The new Congress is controlled by aroused Democrats who are convinced that Richard Nixon can be denied re-election next year. Although he is generally satisfied with his accomplishments in foreign policy, Nixon knows that his survival may depend on how he deals with the problems involving life at home ?and what he gets out of Congress in the next 22 months could be decisive. He has vowed privately that there will be "blood all over the floor" if Congress does not pass some of his priority programs...
...growing louder that Nixon will dump Agnew from the Republican ticket in 1972, such predictions are premature. By tradition, the vice presidency is a condition of insecurity-as Nixon himself knows, having faced the same prospect himself before the 1956 election. Whether Agnew joins the 1972 ticket will depend upon Nixon's political needs at the time. Actually, some of Agnew's friends think that he might even leave office without much resistance. One evening during last fall's campaign, he told an intimate: "I might just get out and open up a law office...
Tourism Campaign. Many of Sadat's ventures depend on an Egypt at peace-a hopeful portent for the negotiations with Israel. Aristotle Onassis flew into Cairo last week to check the possibilities of pumping oil through a proposed $250 million pipeline from the Gulf of Suez to Alexandria. Since the line would cross stretches of sand now dotted by Soviet missiles, Onassis said that he would return in six weeks, when the Jarring talks should be in better focus. The Suez Canal Co. has ordered a $2,400,000 Dutch dredger that could deepen the canal...
...consensus of the professors was that the outcome of the case will depend entirely on the strength of the Government's evidence...
Since the Washington conference in December 1969, Dr. Mayer reports that all counties now have food programs. Most of these county programs involve food stamps, which unlike the older commodity distribution ("surplus food') plan, does not depend on traveling large distances to food pick up sites in transportation which the poor do not have...