Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reaction to Carter's initiative was predictably swift and angry. Governors and Congressmen from the affected areas echoed Senator Scoop Jackson's charge that the move was an absurd mistake. Declared Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd: "It is a waste of money to stop projects that have already started and gone through the long process of justification...
...farm, retreat here and pick off the buggers as they come through that door." Though still maintaining a confident front, reports TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs after a visit to Salisbury, white Rhodesia is becoming deeply demoralized. Last week's vote by the U.S. Congress to repeal the Byrd Amendment, under which the U.S. has been importing Rhodesian chrome since 1972 in violation of U.N. sanctions, will have little effect on the Rhodesian economy, since U.N. sanctions are being violated clandestinely by dozens of countries, including the Soviet Union. As a symbol, however, the U.S. action was the latest...
WHILE PRESIDENT CARTER'S recent repeal of the Byrd Amendment permitting U.S. importation of Rhodesian chrome--a move that will increase white Rhodesia's economic isolation and strengthen the position of the Zimbabwean freedom fighters--suggests that the administration may be developing a new policy in Africa, the recent gift of almost $4 million in weapons and aid to Zaire inspires a less optimistic interpretation of American goals...
...repeal of the Byrd Amendment is essentially symbolic. American reliance on Rhodesian chrome dropped from 11 per cent of the amount used in the U.S. to 3 per cent last year; and Union Carbide, which owns most of the major Rhodesian chrome mines, recently completed construction of a chrome refinery in South Africa and will be able to continue importing Rhodesian chrome in finished form to America through that channel. The move seems designed simply to win the friendship of the Zimbabwean freedom fighters, whose victory in Rhodesia seems inevitable; it certainly represents no sacrifice on America's part...
...Byrd drew a foul after a Columbia timeout but missed the second attempt with 17 seconds left to play and Harvard rebounded...