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...will have at least a couple of weeks for intensive lobbying between Tuesday's scheduled Judiciary Committee vote and a full Senate roll call on Bork. But Senate Democrats who feel confident that they have the nays to kill the Bork nomination last week successfully urged Majority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia to bring the issue to the floor as soon as possible...
Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd warned last week that the legislators at minimum may attach reservations and understandings that would have to be renegotiated with Moscow. The prospect worries Shevardnadze; he made a point last week of recalling the Soviets' "bitter experience" with the SALT II treaty, which was never ratified and which Reagan has now declared dead...
...when your intern buddy dulcetly answers the phone--"Senator Byrd's office, how may I direct your call?"--it is a sure sign he's moving up in the congressional world...
...front to protect the three U.S. warships that were supposed to be protecting it. The American vessels, bristling with the latest gear to defend against planes, ships and submarines, could not cope with the World War II-vintage mines. "Who is escorting whom?" asked Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd last week. "This patently absurd and ridiculous result of the first escort mission is embarrassing to the nation...
...presided over solemn ceremonies in stately Independence Hall, while not far away some 100 supporters of the National Organization for Women demonstrated for an Equal Rights Amendment, chanting, "Hey! Hey! What do you say! Ratify the ERA!" While speakers redundantly eulogized the Constitution, Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd, alluding to disclosures of the Iran-contra abuses, cautioned against "habits of power that are inherently undemocratic and unconstitutional...