Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Baker balks on SALT II, and Byrd flies off to Moscow...
Baker's intention to work against an unamended treaty-and the Soviet promise to accept no amendments-left the treaty's fate largely in the hands of Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd, who this week will spend four days in the Soviet Union talking with Kremlin officials...
...Byrd has not made up his mind about the treaty, and the Carter White House badly needs him on its side if the pact is to stand any chance of passage. Thus the Administration accommodatingly lent Byrd Carter's own back-up jet, Air Force Two, a passel of State Department arms control experts as traveling companions and, as tour guide, Malcolm Toon, the testy U.S. Ambassador to Moscow. To shepherd Byrd around the Soviet Union, Toon will have to skip his embassy's July 4 celebration and his own birthday party (he will...
...Carter these days, not even making his decision stick on a secondary issue of foreign policy that Congress in happier times would have been content to leave to the President. Last week the Senate voted 52-41 in favor of a measure sponsored by Virginia's Harry Byrd to lift the sanctions. South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond caught the mood of the Senate's conservatives when he thundered that the guerrilla movements "are armed and guided by the Soviet Union, China, Cuba and other Communist states. We must not give aid or comfort to guerrillas who would overthrow...
DIED. Philip Van Horn Weems, 90, navigation expert; of pneumonia; in Annapolis, Md. A Tennessee farm boy who graduated with the same U.S. Naval Academy class ('12) as Explorer Admiral Richard Byrd, Weems developed many navigational methods and devices, among them the Weems plotter, treasured by pilots from World War II on. An adviser to Byrd and Charles Lindbergh, Weems was often called back to duty after retiring as a Navy captain in 1933, the last time to devise an instrument allowing astronauts to find their way without using computers...