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...warnings about the conciliatory tone at the White House. "We can call summits with the Soviets and the Democrats, or we can move out with the Reagan agenda," says Kemp. "If the White House sits down to write a trade bill or a budget in a summit with Bob Byrd or Jim Wright, it's over." When the President met last week with a delegation of conservative Senators, he listed as his legislative priorities the deployment of Star Wars, a balanced-budget amendment and prohibition of abortion. While that may be an agenda that does not smack of compromise...
...There is no way we can override the president's veto of a disapproval resolution," Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd, D-W. Va., said last week. "The $105 million down the road is another question...
PROFESSOR LONGHAIR: Rock 'n' Roll Gumbo. (Dancing Cat) His rightful name was Henry Roeland Byrd, but down in New Orleans everyone called him Fess and they knew without being told that he was more than a local legend. He was one of the all-time great rhythm-and-blues piano thumpers. His left hand rolled over the keys, keeping a wild rhythm that seemed to play out like an entire band. His right hand was like an antenna, pulling in melodies from the Delta blues, from Caribbean calypso, from rock and pop and jazz and anywhere else his ear chanced...
...NEVILLE BROTHERS: Treacherous. (Rhino) These four, New Orleans funk masters to the manner born, are heirs to the proud Byrd tradition. This two- record set covers 30 years of their music, starting with a rough-and-ready Mardi Gras Mambo (released in 1955) and ending with a spirited spiritual recessional recorded in the spring of 1985. New Orleans produced many superb musicians and singers, but the Nevilles are the town's premier vocal ensemble. A single cut, Fire on the Bayou, is like a dancing flame on an oil slick. It produces enough heat to warm a mountain cabin...
...Byrd of West Virginia said, leaving the White