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GEORGIA SENATOR SAMUEL NUNN...
...compromising an issue as at dramatizing it. Partisan of big defense that he is, he has worked behind the scenes to scale down Pentagon budget requests so that they would be acceptable to the Senate. Though he is adamant about maintaining U.S. forces in Europe, he joined Senator Sam Nunn in introducing an amendment to the Defense Appropriation Bill that would require European nations to share the cost of the troop commitment; the amendment was passed. He and his staff are huddling with both the White House and Soviet diplomats to try to work out a compromise on the trade...
...military affairs. When McCoy Air Force Base shuts down in Orlando, Fla., thousands of people will be out of work. But the city's economy, booming from the $40 million Disney World venture, will hardly notice the loss. Though Georgia will lose three military bases, Senator Sam Nunn said he would ask some questions of the Administration but not raise too much fuss. Compared to the cutbacks in other states, he declared, "Georgia fared well...
...during his successful campaign for the Senate seat vacated by Republican John Sherman Cooper. As state senate majority leader, Huddleston helped repeal a 5% sales tax on food items that Kentuckians vigorously resented; the tax, as it happened, had been raised by his opponent, former Governor Louie B. Nunn (no kin to Georgia's new Senator Sam Nunn). Huddleston labeled Oct. 1, when the tax repeal on food items took effect, as "Dee-day" and reminded voters to "dee-duct" part of the cost of bread, milk and other essential items...
...sales tax increase, and the fact that Nunn ran for Governor in 1967 on a no-new-tax platform, so irritated voters that Huddleston made it the foundation of a strong campaign. Tuesday became another Dee-day, and Huddleston emerged as the first Kentucky Democrat in the U.S. Senate in 18 years...