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...crucial debate did not focus on student deferments, but rather on an amendment proposed by Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mon.) which called for a declared national policy that all U.S. troops be withdrawn from Indochina in nine months, if U.S. prisoners of war in North Vietnam are released. The amendment was passed by the Senate but killed in a House-Senate conference...
Lowenstein is not yet actively supporting any one presidential candidate. About Democratic front-runner Sen. Edmund Muskie (D-Maine), he said. "I'm not committed to the notion that he will or won't be an acceptable candidate. He's a potentially acceptable candidate, but a lot depends on the next six months...
...Muskie." McCarthy wrote to Monday denying the gag, but he did not deny another quote the weekly had attributed to him: "If Muskie had been Paul Revere, he'd have shouted during his warning ride, The British have been here for four days.' " Monday headlined one article: "Sen. Mushy and the Politics of Wishy-Washiness...
...real problem may be keeping Taiwan from being expelled entirely. Says the Indian Ambassador to the U.N., Samar Sen: "[The U.S.] Government can simply explain that it is a question of 12 million Chinese or 750 million." One possible U.S. strategy: to agree that Chinese admission is no longer an "important" question and can be settled by a simple majority vote, but to insist that Taiwan's expulsion would be "important," thus requiring a two-thirds vote in the General Assembly. If it became clear that the Nationalists were nevertheless about to be expelled, they would almost surely quit...
...Congress is through informal, intermittent briefing sessions with House and Senate leaders. And even those briefings appear to be empty exercises, for Kissinger is subjected to them only when the President decides they are necessary. For example, a one-time leading member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-former Sen. Albert Gore-said recently that he did not know of any White House briefing sessions with Congress preceding the decision to invade Cambodia last Spring...