Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Unproven Argument. However, nothing worked last week for proponents of the SST. Their losing fight for the SST was based on economics and industrial patriotism, and it was waged by appropriate leaders: Democratic Senators Warren Magnuson and Henry Jackson of Washington. The SST prototype is being built at the Boeing...
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Finally, implicit in the debate was the painful proposition that of the $1.3 billion originally planned for the prototype, $800 million has already been spent. Was it reasonable to stop now? The environmental argument won; even though the environmental fears are largely unproven, and much of the outcry may be...
Compromise. The debate will only be momentarily quiescent. It now goes to a Senate-House conference committee, where Administration supporters will try to have the House stance prevail-it voted for the continued funding. If that fails, as expected, an attempt may be made to win a compromise on an...
RICHARD NIXON'S strategy of Vietnamization faces a new period of peril and testing. The President has declared that he will have ended active U.S. participation in the war by Election Day 1972; indeed, public opinion in the U.S. leaves him no alternative if he is to survive politically...