Word: mansfield
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...this took place against the background of the battle over Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's proposal to cut U.S. troops in Europe by one-halt. It was an ill-advised and ill-timed proposal, but some Nixon critics feel that the President greatly overreacted. As part of the counterattack on Mansfield, the Administration sought to link the arms limitation issue with the troop reduction issue. During the talks, the Russians have insisted that American nuclear weapons in Europe-aboard Sixth Fleet carriers in the Mediterranean, for example-must be included in any arms-limitation agreement...
...Minister Pierre Trudeau went to Moscow last week to sign a pact of mutual cooperation with the Soviets. Both Brezhnev and Kosygin suggested to Trudeau that they wanted to pare their swollen defense budget and put the money into sorely needed housing. Thus they helped kill whatever chance the Mansfield amendment may once have had. It was handily defeated in the Senate, 61 to 36, and compromise amendments were voted down as well.* In the process, however, Nixon used up a lot of his credit with Congress. "I'll say they overreacted," Republican Senator George Aiken complained...
...support for continued spending on ABM. Their rebellion is explained less by neo-isolationism than by their growing sense of impotence in foreign policy making (see TIME ESSAY). Nixon might have spared himself considerable trouble if he had let a few key Senators know what he was up to. Mansfield, for example, was rather vaguely informed only hours before the Senate vote...
...being isolationist. Republican Jacob Javits of New York-the only Senator who has been cited by name in Nixon's attacks-wants to curb the President's war-making powers. But Javits sided with his party's leader last week in voting against Senator Mike Mansfield's amendment to reduce U.S. forces in Europe by half. John Stennis of Mississippi, who shares Javits' views on war powers, is generally the Senate's stoutest defender of Nixon's defense-budget and national-security policies. Mansfield, whose defeated amendment may have seemed isolationist, supports...
...Rough. Baseball scouts knew where Vida was when, as a schoolboy in Mansfield, La., he struck out 21 batters in a seven-inning game. Football scouts were already trailing him, especially after he threw 35 touchdown passes in his senior year at DeSoto High. Turning down football scholarship offers from 25 colleges, he signed with the A's for a $50,000 bonus. After leading the American Association in strikeouts, he was brought up to Oakland late last season. In his first game, Blue, one of the few switch-hitting pitchers in baseball, clouted a three-run homer...