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...Congress may still torpedo the sub sale. The Joint Atomic Energy Committee of the House and Senate has been dead set against sharing nuclear know-how with France. Democratic Committee Chairman Chet Holifield last week declared he was against transferring classified information "to nations whose political structure is unstable and whose security capability is questionable...
Regarding the "peace marches," Mr. Chet Holifield is correct when he says: "They just I repeat what they've been told." On this campus, the advocates of the marches dream of not paying taxes for military defense and not serving in the Army...
Reactions by official Washington were fairly predictable. Rep. Chet Holifield (D-Cal.), chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, one of the leading proponents of renewed atmospheric testing, said the students were "full of baloney." Sen. John O. Pastore (D.-R.I.) vice-chairman of the committee, was one of the few Congressmen who would not even grant an appointment to the students. He told a student reporter he was against "emotional outbursts" in place of well-founded, knowledgeable democratic opinion" and was insulted at the students "questioning the ability of chosen leaders to make decisions...
...delegation invited inside found presidential aides lined up to listen. Emerging pleased as punch, one "Turn Toward Peace" picketeer reported, "They said we were a nice balance to the 'cold warriors.' " In the halls of Congress, the disarmament group got shorter shrift from California's Chet Holifield, chairman of the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee. "Somebody has filled 'em full of baloney," grumped Holifield. "You try to talk to them and they just repeat what they've been told." With demonstrations and proclamations-and also with moderate voices and measured argument-students across the nation...
...issues that the U.S. finds itself with little choice but to resume atmospheric testing. Though the Administration has not yet decided just when to begin testing, pressure grew in Congress for a quick test resumption. New Mexico's Senator Clinton P. Anderson and California's Representative Chet Holifield-the two senior Democrats on the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy-called last week in strong words for atmospheric tests. Said Anderson: "We must conduct atmospheric tests because the underground tests have not given us all the answers we need." Connecticut's Democrat Senator Thomas J. Dodd demanded...