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Others simply wearied of the Washington struggle. Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, who also attracted national attention because of her impressive performance during Watergate, is now on the lecture circuit. James Abourezk chose not to run for re-election as a South Dakota Senator and is a lawyer who represents, among other clients, the new government of Iran. Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson III will retire next year; he talks vaguely of campaigning for the presidency as an independent, hoping to sweep away the "minutiae" that hog-tie Washington...
...TIME'S young leaders left office. Two Democrats retired: Senator James Abourezk of South Dakota and Representative Barbara Jordan of Texas. Democratic Governors Jerry Apodaca of New Mexico and Reubin Askew of Florida were ineligible to run for second terms. Democratic Governor Richard Kneip of South Dakota resigned to become U.S. Ambassador to Singapore...
...Senate, Democrat James Abourezk of South Dakota, a diehard opponent of natural gas deregulation, mounted a one-man filibuster that delayed the final vote for three days. Even after a 71-to-13 cloture vote, Abourezk, who is retiring from the Senate this year, obstinately continued his filibuster, causing Majority Leader Byrd to slump red-faced with anger in his chair. Abourezk, with a handful of supporters, kept talking for 15 hours, then gave up. Hours later, the bill passed, by 60 to 17 in the Senate and 231 to 168 in the House...
...Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), floor leader of the bill, have beaten back efforts to kill it by a filibuster. For a time, it looked as though deregulation might be defeated by a coalition of consumer states, led by Sen. Howard R. Metzenbaum (D-Ohio) and Sen. James Abourezk (D-S.D.), and joined by right-wingers like Sen. Clifford Hansen (D-Wyo.) who want total deregulation or none at all. But eventually administration supporters garnered enough votes to invoke cloture and kill the kind of stalling tactics which Metzenbaum and Abourezk used to defeat deregulation a year...
Senator James Abourezk (D-S.Dak), the only Senate voice raised in opposition to the agreements said that, because of the agreements, "the remaining members of the Arab bloc will in all probability suffer deep divisions among themselves; radicalism, and all that comes with it, will be greatly encouraged...