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Prompt action could easily forestal a sensational student response to the Committee's rebuff--the kind of well-publicized demonstration, already being proposed, that the Record American has been waiting four years to cover. Better still, it could consign future discussion of parietals to the inaudibility the issue so richly deserves...
Traditionally, when asked to raise taxes, Congressmen heft their axes. This year, under heavy Administration pressure to approve a 10% surcharge on personal and corporate income taxes, the mood of Congress is that nothing will be done until the President wields a hatchet himself. In a humiliating rebuff to its Democratic leadership and Lyndon Johnson, the House of Representatives last week bluntly told the Administration that it should either make immediate and specific plans to cut federal spending or else jettison all hope of its urgently needed tax boost...
...capitulation," as Cuba's radio put it, cost them incalculable prestige among the Arabs, sought to repair the damage by severing diplomatic ties with Israel and by warning, after a Moscow meeting among the leaders of seven Communist states, that they would help the Arabs "administer a resolute rebuff" to the Israelis unless they relinquished captured territory. But the defeated Arabs are not likely to forgive very soon the Russians for failing to bail them out. "What has come over you, friend?" asked the Baghdad daily Sawt al-'Arab. "You made us promises, and now that the time...
...Cultural Revolution that he unleashed nine months ago. The Red Guards, who were his first chosen instruments for rooting out his opponents, have become so unruly and fractious that chances are Mao could not rein them in all by himself; in any event, he appears too fearful of a rebuff to try. As for the party, Mao quite openly distrusts it, fearing that the loyalty of many party members still belongs to his archenemy, President Liu Shao-chi. Mao had little choice but to place his bet on the army. Yet there are questions about the army...
...amendment by Tennessee's Senator Albert Gore that would repeal the Long act. As they have ever since the beginning of the struggle, Senate Republicans voted virtually en masse against the act, which would give the traditionally money-short Democrats extra campaign funds. Even with his latest rebuff, Long was not about to quit. "If need be," he said, "we ought to stay here until Christmas or New Year's to do what is best for the country." Snapped Mansfield: "I cannot believe that the Senate desires to repeat this demeaning indulgence...