Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...long ago, it was widely held that opponents of the war had to limit their program to a demand for a bombing halt in Vietnam if they were to have any effect. The bombing was stopped, but the war goes on. Now we hear that the demand for immediate withdrawal has become permissible, but to argue for the Vietnamese revolution is a political dead-end. The anti-war movement has never been well served by that sort of pessimism; it would not be well served...
Moynihan's decision came within the time limit of two years for Faculty members on leave of absence. Under the rule, a Faculty member may not return to his job after more than two years' consecutive leave of absence...
...funds to support similar U.S. operations in Cambodia in the future. But a gentlemanly pro-Administration filibuster delayed passage until U.S. forces had pulled out, making the issue seem academic. Since then, the doves have been beaten on every significant amendment they have offered. On several attempts to limit Administration plans to expand the anti-ballistic missile program, the most they could muster was 47 votes. All of their efforts to cut the Pentagon budget on the floor of the Senate have proved futile. At the same time, opinion polls show that public support of the President's policies...
After California, Texas and Louisiana fought Washington for legal title to the tidelands 20 years ago, the issue seemed to be settled. The states lost on legal principle in court, then won from Congress concessions within the three-mile limit. New claimants and new oil prospects, however, have reopened the contest over submerged lands on a grand scale...
Colonial Claims. Now 13 Atlantic Coast states find themselves in litigation with the Federal Government. Only months after Maine announced its underwater deal, Washington sued the states, asserting that they were coveting what was not theirs: natural resources beyond the three-mile limit. The U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the tidelands cases and the Submerged Lands Act of 1953, the Government contends, restrict state rights to three miles from shore...