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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MILITARY APPROPRIATIONS. After a testy but short debate, the House cut more than $5 billion from the Administration's request for defense funds. Opponents of the ABM could muster only 25 votes in an attempt to remove $359.5 million to begin deployment of the weapon. The $69.9 billion package...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Congress Delay and Disarray | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

Emergency Extensions. Whereas the House has finally completed work on all of its appropriations bills for the year, the Senate has passed only five of the 14 required to finance the Government's operations. That means most departments are operating on emergency extensions of last year's level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Congress Delay and Disarray | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

In his two televised attacks on the news media, Vice President Spiro Agnew urged readers and viewers to join him in commenting on the performance of the nation's newspapers and television stations. Thousands accepted his invitation, and the result has been one of the greatest outpourings of mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes: Mail Call | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

Many of the letters are expectedly heavy with vitriol. Some show an irrational readiness to blame the messenger for the message and hold the news media responsible for the social ills that they report. A significant number reflect a disturbing increase in overt antiSemitism. NBC said last week that it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes: Mail Call | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

Angry as all the mail is, it could be worse-and has been for the television networks, where issues more vital to viewers than politics are at stake. NBC, for example, has received 60,000 Agnew-inspired letters. It got far more when it canceled the space opera Star Trek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes: Mail Call | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

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