Word: byrds
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Majority rule is also a new goal for Kissinger. Until recently he accepted the Byrd Amendment, which allows U. S. corporations to import Rhodesian chrome, in violation of U.N. sanctions. Even after he publicized his opposition to the Amendment last summer, the Ford Administration did very little to actually get it repealed. Nor has Kissinger done anything to press for prosecution of U. S. businesses like Mobil Oil that have broken the boycott illegally...
...most of the eleven years since UDI, Rhodesia had survived surprisingly well as an international outcast. Dozens of international firms, as well as a number of countries, continued to do business with it despite U.N. sanctions; since the passage of the Byrd Amendment in 1972, U.S. firms had been buying Rhodesian chrome in open defiance...
...There was nothing to be gained," said Senate Acting Democratic Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia, pondering why Carter granted the interview in the first place. Commented Robert Bailey, 47, a bakery operator from Freemont, Calif.: "I'm a Baptist myself, and for a Bible-totin' Baptist to say those things-well, they were crude. I don't see why he had to reveal all his deep, inner thoughts-to make a national confession. It certainly doesn't make you a great...
Fitch retired in 1928, but A. & F.'s fame as a purveyor of sporting goods to the rich and famous had become widespread. The store outfitted Theodore Roosevelt for safaris, Admiral Richard E. Byrd for his expedition to Antarctica. Fisherman Herbert Hoover, Golfers Woodrow Wilson and Dwight Eisenhower and all-round author-out-doorsman Ernest Hemingway also shopped there. Its stock of firearms and tackle equipment was among the world's largest and finest, and its aloof sales staff was made up of technical experts in A. & F.'s wares. A. & F.'s Manhattan store...
Starting Monday guitarist Charlie Byrd will appear with his trio at Sandy's. Byrd fancies himself a jazz and classical guitarist--"Blues and Bach" is a trademark. His trio, with brother Joe on bass and Bertrell Knox on drums should provide some interesting club music...