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...increase next year. He also hoped to obscure the fact that his Administration had set spending records in spite of his self-proclaimed conversion to Keynes. Congress sensed the trap, but many members regarded the President's proposal as a domestic version of the blank-check Gulf of Tonkin resolution, one that could only result in further reducing the legislative branch's already badly eroded constitutional powers. Refusing to part with, or even pare Congress's prerogative to determine appropriations, a coalition of liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans handily defeated the measure in the Senate...
...profile of George McGovern leans too far the other way-it is so uncritical as to seem reverential. Where it does point up what it considers a flaw, such as McGovern's backing of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, it suggests that it can be forgiven as being "politically realistic," an excuse granted to few other subjects. The language of the profile is laced with panegyric phrases like "that kind of humility" and "unassuming preacher-like authority." Those who know McGovern well find him neither humble nor unassuming...
...Virgins have as tight gun-control enforcement as practically any place in the U.S., but the gun population has soared in the last two years. Says Attorney General Ronald Tonkin: "I don't think there is an unarmed house in St. Croix...
...continentals claim that a large part of the problem can be traced to lax courts and a poor police force, and they seem to have a point. Says Tonkin: "There are 60 to 100 real troublemakers; they're mostly on St. Croix, and we know who they are." Yet virtually nothing is done about them. Of 933 misdemeanor cases brought to trial on St. Croix last year, only 33 resulted in jail sentences. All five of the black youths charged with the massacre at Laurance and David Rockefeller's Fountain Valley Golf Course had had previous arrests...
...President began speaking to the nation on prime-time evening TV, it was 10 a.m. on Vietnamese clocks. At that hour, Navy jets from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin dipped low over the narrow, shallow approaches to Haiphong and six smaller ports up and down North Viet Nam's 420 miles of coastline. In a matter of minutes, the pilots splashed hundreds of deadly delayed-action mines into the Communist shipping channels, and the peril and violence of the war in Indochina escalated once again...