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...bomb that ripped into a corridor outside the Senate chamber last week was eerily predictable. "I was sort of anticipating something," said a shaken Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd, who lost his office doors to the blast, "especially in light of other occurrences that have taken place around the world recently...
...time to interrupt a previously announced night session on defense appropriations. Merely by chance, the Senate had adjourned early. Had the lawmakers lingered as late as expected, said Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, "undoubtedly there would have been grave injury and perhaps loss of life." Instead, the explosion tore Byrd's doors off their hinges, wrecked a portion of the Republican cloakroom near by and damaged valuable artwork, including oil portraits of the legendary Senators Webster, Clay and Calhoun. The cost of the destruction was estimated...
...Democrat Sam Hall of Texas. "There's a real need to clarify our policy and to explain exactly what the Administration's goals are," said Pennsylvania's Joe McDade, a key Republican on the Appropriations Committee. "A nation cannot wear two hats," said Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, "one being that of a peace-keeping force and the other being that of taking sides with one of the warring factions...
Last week, in the two-year story of Commander Richard Byrd in Antarctica, came his successful flight to inspect some 10,000 square miles of Antarctica in a Fairchild monoplane with Pilot Bernt Balchen. They saw some mountain peaks no one had seen before and decided to name them for John D. Rockefeller Jr., one of the heavy contributors to the expedition's fund...
...could always be extended. The document states that the role of the military mission would be subject to the limitations of the multinational force, but it also says that the mission can engage in "such protective measures" as are necessary to ensure its safety. That escape clause, as Senator Byrd pointed out, is wide enough "to run Amtrak through...