Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tougher Than Usual. The possibility of an inflationary steel settlement was only one cause for concern as the U.S. basked in its 54th straight month of prosperity. Even more disturbing was the anticipated spurt in defense spending to pay for the expanding war in Viet Nam. So far this year, President Johnson has demanded only $2.4 billion in supplementary funds to fight the war, but that figure is virtually certain to top $5 billion by the end of the current fiscal year; it could soar as high as $12 billion a year thereafter. In addition, congressional eagerness to expand Administration...
...Mail as "a source for the Communist and Afro-Asian propaganda machines." Some Thanks. But the protests against the Mail come not from official sources alone. A torrent of abuse was pouring into Gandar's office from an angry public that seemed to think Verwoerd should get far tougher with the Mail. "Hang down your head in shame! You have done irreparable harm to our wonderful country," wrote one irate reader. Staffers have also received threatening phone calls, and students from Witwatersrand University were picketing the Mail's offices last week with bitter placards: "News, Not Abuse...
...Japanese, who still put great store by face, have begun to argue in recent years that many of their economic treaties with the U.S. are "unequal" because they were made when Japan was weak and conquered. This year the Japanese decided to take a much tougher stand in discussing economic issues with the U.S. Last week this tougher stand led to a squabble about air rights into...
What was the squabble all about? Johnson somehow got the idea that at a background-only session held for a few reporters Ford had inspired stories that the President was chicken; that Ford had told the newsmen that Johnson wanted to take a sterner, tougher stand on Viet Nam, but had retreated because mild Mike Mansfield was threat ening to raise a big row. If this had been true, Johnson might have had reason to get mad. But it wasn't-and it's one of the mysteries of Washington how Johnson got his lines of information clogged...
...them suspended, and fines ranging from $50 to $300 to some 754 convicted campus rebels. Nearly half of them informed Crittenden that they would not accept a probationary condition that he also imposed: to refrain from any more illegal demonstrations for up to two years. The judge responded with tougher sentences, generally the option of paying higher fines or going to jail for longer terms. Among those refusing probation was Free Speech Movement Leader Mario Savio, who haughtily told the court that he could not observe the ban because "with American politics presently in the hands of the morally...