Word: byrds
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...refer to Majority Leader Robert Byrd of Virginia. He is not. This Senator Byrd is from West Virginia...
Though Church could impede SALT's progress, he cannot prevent a majority of his committee's members from sending the treaty to the Senate floor for a vote. This could turn out to be the Administration's strategy. Said Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia: "My timetable for SALT is not in the slightest changed by all this shaking and trembling" about Cuba. He insists that the Senate will consider and vote on the treaty by Thanksgiving. Byrd also has met separately with at least two dozen fellow Senators, pleading with them to consider SALT...
Amid the rhetoric and confusion, one of the coolest voices in Congress was that of Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd. When he saw President Carter at the start of the crisis, Byrd counseled calm and restraint. Last week he predicted, somewhat optimistically that the whole matter would be resolved within a few days. "There never should have been a crisis atmosphere to start with." Byrd declared. "I've been here during a few crises, including the missile crisis in 1962. I saw nothing in this one to justify panic or a hasty judgment on SALT...
...Byrd said he expected Church's committee to continue hearings on SALT, and he intended to bring the treaty before the Senate in early November. Said Byrd: "There is plenty of time for the dust to settle. I hope by then we can reach agreement on the treaty in an environment less charged with emotion than we had a week ago.: He then firmly repeated what he had told Jimmy Carter a week earlier: "The SALT treaty must not be held hostage to the situation in Cuba...
...Wichita, Kans., the world's leading manufacturer of camping equipment. Its dependable gas-fired lantern, as revered as L.L. Bean's Maine hunting boot in the woodsmen's pantheon, helped farmers work after dark during World War I and provided light for Admiral Richard Byrd in Antarctica; more than 33 million have been sold since the lantern was introduced in 1914. Almost as popular are the company's various camping stoves. One famous model was the pocket stove developed for American G.I.s in World War II. Few well-equipped hunters will venture into the wilderness this...