Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senior Levy Byrd and Roth were named First Team All-Ivy yesterday...
Harvard's hockey team dominated the All-Ivy League selections announced yesterday, placing junior All-American Randy Roth and senior Levy Byrd on the first team and senior Bob Goodenow on the second team...
...resolution. The U.S. originally voted in favor of the sanctions, but pressure soon mounted from American steel producers who preferred Rhodesia's low-priced chrome to the inflated prices they then paid for the Soviet Union's shipments. Finally, in 1971, Congress relented to the pressure. Under the Byrd Amendment to the 1972 Procurement Authorization Act, the U.S. can import Rhodesian goods designated as "strategic" in importance. The amendment originally allowed for importing chrome alone, but the strategic definition has since expanded to include beryllium, nickel, and asbestos. The African Sun allegedly carried Rhodesian asbestos, and the protestors asked...
...Eddison, the cause of the United States boycott is very important. After the U.N. imposed sanctions and before Congress passed the Byrd Amendment, he says, Rhodesia suffered both economically and psychologically from the world blockade. Foreign reserves dwindled, and the white regime felt isolated, unrecognized by every nation in the world. The Byrd Amendment had two beneficial effects for the Smith Government: It bolstered the Rhodesian economy by providing millions of dollars in foreign reserves, and it demonstrated that the Nixon Administration was sympathetic to the white cause...
...Senate has already repealed the Byrd Amendment and the House may follow suit despite objections of steel manufacturers and other industrialists. Such a move would serve notice to Ian Smith and his white regime that one less government wishes to condone Rhodesia's racial practices. The demonstration last week was an effort to show solidarity with the 14 million Zimbawbe people. Insofar as the longshoremen did unload the Rhodesian asbestos, the action was unsuccessful. But as one organizer pointed out, the protest had a broader purpose: to show support for a people who live in a state of virtual servitude...