Word: mansfield
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...92nd Congress returns for the second session, its Democratic leaders face a delicate task. They share a visceral determination, strengthened by the personal presidential ambitions of half a dozen Senators, to knock Nixon out of office. Even such usually cooperative politicians as Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, House Speaker Carl Albert and House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills resent what they consider Nixon's highhandedness with Congress. They want to do him in. But they dare not appear merely as obstructionist, and must give their party a positive congressional record on which to run. They know only too well...
...early when Lefty's Terrapins are playing basketball. It never used to be this way, of course. Maryland did not have Tom McMillen. Or Mo Elmore. Or Helicopter Brown. Or any of the handpicked 6-8, 6-10 and 6-11 dudes from New York City. Springfield Gardens or Mansfield, Pa., that were playing for the Terp varsity last week when Maryland invited St. John's, Western Kentucky and Harvard down to play in the first Maryland Invitational Tournament...
FOREIGN AID. After rejecting the House foreign aid authorization last October, the Senate passed two separate authorization bills of its own: one for economic and humanitarian aid and one for military aid. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield tacked on an amendment calling for a withdrawal of all U.S. troops in Viet Nam within six months, pending the release of all prisoners of war. The package was sent to the joint House-Senate conference, where it has since languished...
Campaign Dilemma. To keep American power from being undermined at a critical stage in overseas developments, the President ordered an all-out lobbying effort to defeat the Mansfield Amendment, which would have reduced U.S. forces in Europe by 60,000. Though the proposal was heavily supported in the beginning, it was defeated in the Senate last week by a comfortable 15-vote margin. The President's domestic design did not fare so well. He had urged Congress to pass a $27.4 billion tax cut to stimulate the economy. The House gave him about what he asked...
...solution, in the view of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, is to bring the U.N. into the picture. "This is the time, now, today, not tomorrow, for the Security Council to act," he said. But the fact is that, even though all the big powers are anxious to avert a conflict on the subcontinent, none are rushing to place the issue before the U.N. Security Council for fear that they might prove to be unable to agree. Lying in his hospital bed in New York City, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant confided to one of his aides last week...