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Operation Motorman. To prepare for the assault, which was dubbed "Operation Motorman," the British government airlifted three additional battalions into Ulster from West Germany, thereby increasing British troop strength in Northern Ireland to half the size of Britain's entire NATO force. Armored Saracen and Saladin vehicles, still painted the color of sand for desert duty, were landed by Royal Navy vessels. On the eve of the operation, Whitelaw warned the populace that "substantial activity by the security forces" was imminent, and advised Ulstermen to stay off the streets. At 4 o'clock the next morning...
...Power. The Republican Senate leaders were confident they had the votes to stop an end-the-war amendment from being tacked on to the foreign military aid bill. Their judgment seemed to be upheld when Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's amendment calling for U.S. troop withdrawal from Viet Nam by October was voted down 49-44. Then an even more dovish amendment was offered by Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper. It authorized further funds for Indochina only for the purpose of withdrawing all American troops in four months. At best, the amendment would have commanded 40 votes...
...plans were upset when Republican Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts unexpectedly rose to propose an amendment to the amendment. It linked the release of the prisoners of war to the troop withdrawal. A floor debate followed that, rare in Congress these days, actually influenced votes. Mississippi's John Stennis made the standard defense of current policy. "Congress has no negotiating power," he said. "That power rests with the President." But that is precisely the argument the Senate is tired of hearing, considering how much of its powers have slipped away to the President. Retorted Cooper: "If we accept this...
...days of uninterrupted leisure before starting his campaign against Richard Nixon. His plan did not work out that way, of course. All week the telephone jangled in the rustic cabin that McGovern had rented on Sylvan Lake. When he went horseback riding, he was escorted by a troop of Secret Service men and photographers...
...I.R.A. Provisional chiefs in London in hopes of working out a new ceasefire. But the government and the I.R.A. were nowhere near a compromise. The British insisted that Catholic "nogo" areas be opened gradually. The I.R.A. ambitiously demanded release and amnesty for political prisoners, a promise of British troop withdrawal from Northern Ireland by 1975, and some sort of British declaration that would not rule out the possibility of eventually merging Ulster into the Irish Republic...