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...Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments, chaired by Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), heard testimony on two anti-abortion measures, one proposed by Sen. Jesse A. Helms (R-N.C.), which would ban all abortions, and the other by Sen. James L. Buckley (R-N.Y.), which would ban all abortions from the time of "implantation," five to seven days after conception...
...Bayh had called for the hearings because, he said, "there are probably more strong feelings and deep convictions on this issue than any other since I've been chairman," the Associated Press reported...
Thriftiest Speed. Officers of bus lines have been claiming that their maximum efficient speed, below which they will use more gasoline per mile, is 60 to 65. Truckers say that their thriftiest speed is just under 60. Democratic Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana has been lobbying for an amendment to the Energy Emergency Bill that would exempt buses and trucks from the new limits. The Interstate Commerce Commission proposes to ease its "gateway" restrictions, which until now have often forced trucks to take circuitous routes instead of direct ones between some cities. Other truckers, though, will be hurt...
...Enable John J. Sirica, as chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to name a special prosecutor who could be fired only for "extraordinary improprieties." The bill was sponsored by Democrats Philip Hart of Michigan and Birch Bayh of Indiana, and would keep the prosecutor free from the Democratic-controlled Congress as well as the White House. But some lawyers have raised doubts about its constitutionality...
President Nixon's promises did not satisfy Sen. Adlai Stevenson (D-III.), and Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), sponsors of separate bills providing for a court appointed special prosecutor...