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...farther than the chamber of the U.S. Senate as the new bill was passed last week to see how variegated the U.S. is. In the presiding officer's chair sat Hubert Humphrey, son of a Norwegian mother. Much in evidence were Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, whose parents hailed from counties Kilkenny and Limerick, and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, son of Germans. In the semicircular rows that arced to the rear of the chamber sat New York's Jack Javits, son of an Austrian and a Palestinian; Hawaii's Hiram Fong, whose parents were born in China; Connecticut...
Most observers feel that Mansfield has the votes (51) to pass the repeal bill, but not enough (67) to stop a filibuster. Why not just postpone everything for next session? If that is done, the bill becomes the first order of business for the new Senate in January, and Dirksen has promised to be just as adamant then...
...going to be dished up, I can assure you that there is going to be an extended discussion." In his office are some 3,000 newspaper editorials opposing repeal, and, says Ev, "every one will be read into the Congressional Record." Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has planned no round-the-clock, filibuster-busting sessions. "At some point," he said, "we'll have to have a test of strength and we'll be guided by the results...
...Mansfield's aim was "to lay down on our side as cohesive a statement of our aims as Hanoi did of its own" after the President's offer of "unconditional discussions" last April. By comparison with Mansfield's elaboration, Hanoi's terms were cohesive indeed. The Communists' principal, and unacceptable, condition is simply that "the internal affairs of the South Vietnamese people must be settled by the South Vietnamese people themselves in accordance with the program of the National Liberation Front-the Viet Cong's political arm. In other words, as Hanoi sees...
Both Sides Alike. What was almost as hard to swallow was Mansfield's apparent assumption that the U.S. could withdraw in good faith from South Viet Nam, in the belief that the Viet Cong-most of whom are not "foreign"-would do likewise. As for Mansfield's insistence on an amnesty to prevent further "barbarism and atrocities," he made it sound as if the U.S. and government forces in South Viet Nam were just as guilty of systematic torture and terrorism as the Viet Cong...