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...fatuous acronyms like BAMBI, which stands for Ballistic Missile Boost Intercept. Some civilian agencies are equally dense: ACHE (Alabama Commission on Higher Education), or something the Albuquerque payroll office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs calls Wage and Manpower Process Utilizing Machines, which tactlessly yields WAMPUM. From conservationists: FOE (Friends of the Earth) and ACNE (Alaskans Concerned for Neglected Environments...
Against the unknown and against the foe our borders will spread?From sea to sea and mountain to mountain...
...scandals, the inability to answer North Korea's flea-bite seizure of the Pueblo-all these things and more have combined to bring the American military establishment into the noisiest disesteem since before World War II. Wisconsin's Senator William Proxmire, a liberal Democrat-but no doctrinaire foe of the armed services -has won national attention with his disclosures about military overspending beyond original estimates for weapons procurement, notably on the giant C-5A cargo plane...
...issue raised by the debate. The Administration's refusal to accept Cooper-Church is a message to Hanoi that Washington will not necessarily sit still in the future when confronted with a threat that it considers serious. There may be some psychological value in keeping an intractable foe guessing. But the Administration's position on the amendment increases apprehensions among Americans that the U.S. will continue to wage war, directly or indirectly, outside of South Viet Nam. Further, by postponing a vote in the Senate, the loyalists give new ammunition to dissenters who argue that opposition...
...every way. Scion of a wealthy Rio Grande family, Bentsen is genteel but wooden. A former Congressman, he heads a $400 million insurance company and sits on the boards of a number of banks and an oil company. Bentsen was lured back into politics by Yarborough's old foe, ex-Governor John Connally, in a well-organized drive to scuttle Yarborough. The conservative faction put together an effective campaign estimated to cost close to $2,000,000, relying heavily on television advertising, while Yarborough spent a meager $200,000. Connally's mentor, Lyndon Johnson, remained officially neutral...