Word: programming
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...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 remains strong. Temporarily, at least, the doves are dispirited...
...Optimism. A few days before Vice President Agnew's visit to Phnom-Penh, the U.S. announced an estimated $40 million program of military aid to Premier Lon Nol's government. Described by the State Department as "modest but meaningful," the program actually quadruples the present amount of U.S. aid. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, confirming what had long been accomplished fact, defined the use of American airpower in Cambodia well beyond its original limitation of hitting only at supply lines. The U.S. air mission there, he said, was "to destroy supplies and buildups, buildups of personnel as well...
Most major cities in the South-and in the North, for that matter-have adamantly refused to adopt the massive school busing plans necessary to compensate for residential segregation. Few are likely to do so voluntarily. Nashville has won a lower-court reprieve from a busing program pending a Supreme Court decision on its constitutionality. Schools in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, N.C., were denied a similar stay by Chief Justice Warren Burger. They will open this week, ten days late, under a plan requiring two-way busing-and under protest...
...height of the space race, NASA ambitiously scheduled ten lunar landings, planning to send Americans to the moon every four months or so until the end of 1972. As public interest in the moon program faded and Congress chopped away at NASA's budget, however, the space agency began having second thoughts. Earlier this year, it canceled the last of the scheduled missions, Apollo 20, and spaced out the remaining landings to twice a year. Last week, the space agency reluctantly scrubbed two more missions-Apollo 15 and Apollo 19-leaving only four more scheduled flights to the moon...
...have only begun to tackle some of the questions raised by the findings of the successful Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 missions. Perhaps the only consolation for NASA is that the money saved from the two canceled shots (at least $350 million) may be applied to its Skylab program, which, beginning in late 1972, will place a crew of three into earth orbit for 28 days to determine man's ability to survive and work in space for long periods of time...