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...propects are, however, that such ambitious congressional efforts will produce little but loud wrangling; they cannot pass without Reagan's support. Says Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia: "The President is the one man who can get to the people and explain the need for what is required. He simply won't do that." Indeed, there is some talk in Congress of passing the bare minimum of legislation needed to keep the Government running, then adjourning before the political conventions. That way, lawmakers could spend most of the summer and fall trying to get themselves reelected...
...continued and expanded only if the government curbs right-wing killers. But by week's end Reagan was promising to try to work something out with Congress. As to the commission's recommendation for a fiveyear, $8 billion program of economic aid, Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd grumbled, "It is highly questionable for a nation that is racking up $200 billion-a-year deficits to consider pouring $8 billion into Central America...
...Among them: Democratic Presidential Candidate Ernest Hollings and Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, both of South Carolina (for fighting to keep Fort Jackson, near Columbia, open); Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas (for preventing the closing of a Housing and Urban Development Department office in Topeka); Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia (for protecting a money-losing Amtrak route through his state); Democratic Presidential Contender John Glenn and his Ohio colleague Howard Metzenbaum (for stopping the transfer out of Cleveland of 19 attorneys from the Justice Department's antitrust division...
Annie Wilson, Jessica Hall and Debbie Zimic scored in double figures and Shannon Byrd set a pool record in the three-meter dive to lead the Harvard women's swimming team past B.C., 82-58 last night at Chestnut Hill...
...Byrd's score of 266.8 broke the previous pool three-meter record by four points...