Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intransigence was to defer final decisions on many issues. The buck-passing means that some battles will have to be fought again. Thus the Senate refused to give the President his Family Assistance Plan, new restrictions on imports of foreign goods or funds for continued development of the supersonic transport aircraft. Even a much-needed increase in Social Security benefits to help senior citizens keep up with the cost of living became a casualty of the deadline pressures...
...into a morass of confusion in which nothing seemed certain to pass, the basic issues at stake were sharply etched. In order of diminishing intensity of feeling, they came down to a classic confrontation over free trade, a sweeping reform of federal welfare programs, funding of a supersonic jet transport aircraft, and limitations on the President's power to authorize U.S. military operations in Cambodia. With only a few more scheduled working days, this is how those issues stood...
...Senate voted this month to deny the President any more funds to develop a supersonic transport, while the House had authorized the $290 million that the President had requested. A House-Senate conference committee tried to compromise the issue by granting $210 million for the plane. The Senate's Mansfield called this "a capitulation of the Senate position," while other SST critics more bluntly termed it a "betrayal" and "a rape of the will of the Senate." Vowed one: "We're not going to lay over for the old men in the conference committees, who are in league...
...closing days of the election campaign to last week's brief but defiant railroad strike. Even loyal White House men speak of a "trough." Unemployment has climbed to 5.8% and inflation continues unchecked. A major national undertaking that has Nixon's backing−development of a supersonic transport plane−is in danger of being abandoned. Former Interior Secretary Walter Hickel. pink slip in hand, goes on television to attack the Republican posture in the election: "I think the American people want hope." A national poll shows Nixon severely slipping. Even the national Christmas tree is twice derailed...
...rumor going the rounds in Saigon was that an Air Force C-141 jet transport was U.S. bound, toting a 1,000-lb. stone elephant as Christmas greetings to Hollywood's Jill St. John from Washington's Henry Kissinger. No elephant, white or otherwise, for Jill or anyone, said Kissinger. His strategy with women, he added, is "Give them nothing−it drives them crazy." Obviously. "Henry has more depth and sensitivity and integrity than anyone I've ever met−almost," breathed Miss St. John. "But when you live 3,000 miles apart...