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"This can't be passed in the Senate unless the President pushes and shoves," said Ribicoff. "There has been a world of change in that now." Ribicoff says he would like to take credit for a clever maneuver that coaxed the President and his men to push. Actually, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: New Push on Welfare | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

In a similar maneuver, before the Doves had had a chance to study the peace plan released on January 25, Henry Kissinger and Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott told newsmen that to oppose the President's plan was to advocate surrender.

Author: By Jim Blum, | Title: An End to a Beginning? | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

Credibility. North Vietnamese officials in Paris promptly dismissed Nixon's broadcast as a "perfidious maneuver to deceive the American electorate in an election year." When the U.S. proposals were formally presented at the 143rd meeting of the Paris negotiators, the Hanoi spokesman similarly accused Nixon of "holding out bright prospects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY,ECCENTRICS: The Pursuit of Peace and Power | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

The World Federation of Mental Health has also protested the Soviet misuse of psychiatric treatment, as have the Canadian and American Psychiatric Associations, and French intellectuals and psychiatrists. One notable exception was the conference of the World Psychiatric Association in Mexico City last autumn. There, the Soviet Ministry of Health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION,THE WAR: Asylums or Prisons? | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

An extremely methodical man who approaches the game with the air of a Ph.D. candidate, Griese likes to equate football with chess: "In a game I think of myself as looking down on a situation from above, like a chess player. I can see moves coming and I'm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bullet Bob v. Roger the Dodger | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

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