Word: questionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Happier News. In his assertive defense of the controversial ABM system, Laird made what seemed like a startling revelation. The "Safeguard" system was absolutely necessary, he said, because "there is no question" that the Russians are marshaling a first-strike force of giant intercontinental ballistic missiles that could destroy large numbers if not most of the Minuteman U.S. ICBMs. Laird insisted that without Safeguard the U.S. strategy of retaliatory deterrence would be dangerously undermined. Laird's report about the Russian first-strike capacity is still unconfirmed by the White House and doubted by many experts...
...handy bar gaining point. Rogers at first denied that it would ever be used in that manner, which seemed logical enough if its proposed deployment was not deemed threatening enough by the Russians to stall the arms talks in the first place. When Committee Chairman William Fulbright raised the question a second time, Rogers admitted that the ABM might, after all, prove "useful" in bargaining. Fulbright was not about to let the self-contradiction pass unnoticed. "I should not have brought up the question," he said with mock seriousness. "You've just destroyed what little confidence...
...hemisphere and in Europe. The President was persuasive in contending that the ABM system's flexibility and slow timetable would not escalate the arms race. Trudeau, speaking to newsmen at the Canadian embassy, held to his early reservations and objected: "I don't think that the general question has been answered, any more than it was a week ago." However, he later conveyed a different message to his House of Commons. Noting that the first ABM sites would not be operational until 1973, he said: "This gives us more than a few days or weeks to take...
...year since Martin Luther King Jr. died. Who speaks for the black American now? The question itself irritates Negroes. Who, they respond, speaks for the white American? Is it Richard Nixon, who gained the presidency with only 43.4% of the popular vote? George Wallace, who achieved more ballots than any other third-party candidate in the nation's history? If, as one magazine recently claimed, Singer James Brown, "Soul Brother No. 1," is the most powerful Afro-American, who is the most powerful Italian-American? Frank Sinatra...
...question whether King is missed more by whites or Negroes. Some whites, if for selfish reasons, look back to his nonviolent ideals with something like nostalgia. The black reaction is more complicated. Atlanta Attorney Howard Moore says: "No one can take his place. If God is gone, you don't say that there is a vacuum. You say that God is gone." Yet most thoughtful blacks today would reject this exaggeration. The Rev. Channing Phillips, a black favorite-son candidate from Washington at last year's Democratic Convention, insists that the time is past when...