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...Million. Naturally, all parties marched on Washington, and then wheeled uncertainly amid various jurisdictions. Two years ago, the Justice Department sided with CATV, on the grounds that that was "the most promising means of achieving greater diversity in local mass-media communications." In the Senate, the result was a standoff, with John Pastore's communications subcommittee favoring traditional broadcasters and John McClellan's copyright subcommittee leaning to the CATV upstarts. The courts seemed to rule one way one week, another the next. President Johnson appointed a task force to study the matter. And the Federal Communications Commission...
...Bitter Standoff. If Shriver enters the primary, however, the result might be a bitter standoff that could make a winner of the dark-horse candidate, Demagogue George Mahoney ("Your Home Is Your Castle-Protect It!"). Mahoney won the 1966 primary in just such a standoff; as the Democratic candidate, he scared moderate Marylanders into voting for Agnew, then a virtual unknown...
...Rough Standoff. While MIRV development is the single most pressing issue, SALT negotiators will be discussing the whole range of strategic weapons. What makes this task so difficult is that while each nation apparently feels that it has achieved parity with the other, their arsenals differ in important ways. The Soviets, for example, have more (an estimated 1,350) and larger land-based intercontinental missile launchers than the U.S. (1,054), but America's Minutemen are more accurate. With 41 submarines carrying 16 Polaris missiles each, the U.S. has about three times as much sub-launched missile capability...
...standoff continued through the night as State police advanced, firing cannisters of tear gas into the crowd Students fled down Plympton, DeWolf, and Bow Sts, tossing bricks and rocks. Many protestors fled into the courtyards of Quincy House and Lowell House. At one point police charged into Lowell Quincy, Adams, and Claverly to make arrests, State Police, making a sweep down the street, fired several gas cannisters into the Quincy courtyard and the front entrance of Lowell House. Gas fumes choked students in Claverly...
Doubtful Welcome. Thus began an incredible standoff that continued for nearly three more days. The students refused to surrender the plane or release the passengers. South Korean authorities called in machine gunners and military jets to prevent the plane from leaving. For the passengers, crowded six abreast in the plane, the impasse was hell. The men's hands were tied behind them with twine; the air became sour; toilets reached the overflow point. The skyjackers kept the doors shut and window shades drawn...