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Perhaps the biggest brouhaha of all originated in the U.S. Senate over a resolution by Democratic Senators Edward Kennedy and Abraham Ribicoff calling for the withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland and talks leading to a united Ireland. "Ulster is becoming Britain's Viet Nam," said Kennedy in a speech. "America cannot keep silent when men and women of Ireland are dying. Britain has lost its way, and the innocent people of Northern Ireland are the ones who now must suffer . . . The tragedy of Ulster is yet another chapter in the unfolding larger tragedy of the empire...
...campaign. Florida ranks high in Social Security recipients, and unemployment is substantial at Cape Kennedy. Jackson believes, with good reason, that his advocacy of price and wage controls, plus his support of the aerospace industry and his pro-labor voting record, will give him an advantage. Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff contends that if the voting were held today, "Scoop would win the Florida primary...
Explosive Situation. The court's decision coincided with a new effort in the Senate by a most improbable pair of Democrats-Connecticut's liberal Abraham Ribicoff and Mississippi's conservative John Stennis-to require nationwide school integration. Ribicoffs amendment to an Administration bill appropriating $1.5 billion to help school districts desegregate would have required all U.S. schools in metropolitan areas to achieve a minimum racial ratio by 1985. This would be done by discarding city and suburban boundaries and requiring each school in the area to have at least half the percentage of black students that...
Arguing that more blacks attend integrated schools in the South than in the North, Ribicoff warned that the U.S. is moving toward apartheid as big cities throughout the nation turn increasingly black while suburbs remain white. He charged that Northern liberal politicians were guilty of "hypocrisy" and did not "have the guts to face their liberal white constituents, who have fled to the suburbs for the sole purpose of avoiding having their sons and daughters go to schools with blacks." All of the most likely Democratic presidential candidates voted with Ribicoff as his plan was defeated...
...Ribicoff added later, "Student dissent today merely reflects the suspicion among the general populace that headless horsemen are in the saddle leading us through times of trouble and turmoil...