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Vance Hartke, a U.S. Senator from Indiana who describes himself as one of the first members of Congress to break with the government's Indochina policy, was less reluctant to discuss the lessons of Vietnam. Speaking on the Senate floor the same week that Ford fended off Helen Thomas's...
"Now in the sadness that every American must feel in the face of the pitiful plight of the Vietnamese people," Hartke told his colleagues, "it is clear that Indochina was a drama without villains." However bad, however destructive, however unjustified American Indochina policy may have been, Hartke said, the men...
One such story earned CHNS considerable publicity-and some notoriety. Bellamy reported on a telephone poll that CHNS had conducted among Senate legislative aides. With 75 of the 100 offices responding, aides named Henry Jackson as the "most effective" Senator, Jacob Javits as the "brightest" and Philip Hart as the...
A Senate committee headed by Indiana Democrat Vance Hartke has been listening to other proposals, including outright nationalization of the Northeast lines, or nationalization of their rights of way and federal assumption of track maintenance in exchange for a toll charge paid by each railroad. Congress will have the final...
Despite such potential problems, the Mills-Administration proposals stand an excellent chance of becoming law-though probably not in time for the round of world trade talks scheduled to start in Tokyo in September. First reactions in Congress, where Mills is little short of all-powerful on economic matters, were...