Word: montana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile that the Pentagon is betting on to close the missile gap in the mid-1960s-should roll off production lines in 1962. By then, the Air Force announced last week, the first Minuteman launching sites, nearly invulnerable underground concrete silos, will be ready at Montana's Malmstrom Air Force Base...
...fling the President's free-spender charges right back at him. They promised to cut Ike down to size by lopping off $1 billion, possibly to tack the saving onto the embattled U.S. defense budget. "There is too much money and too little change in administration," said Montana's Mike Mansfield, the Senate Democratic whip. "Where is the joint foreign aid effort with other free nations assuming their share of the burden?" Next day at his press conference, the President agreed that "the whole free world should be in a cooperative effort to raise the world economy," announced...
Such nice legalities did not bother ex-President Harry Truman. "This act of provocation is intended missile invasion of the Pacific," said he, in Phoenix, Ariz. "This action is as highhanded as it is brazen." Said Montana's Democratic Senator Mike Mansfield: "I am requesting the State Department to make a strong protest immediately, and if that is not successful, to seek a special session of the U.N." Mansfield added that if the Russians did not bow to the protest. President Eisenhower should reconsider his decision to attend the mid-May summit meeting in Paris with Russia...