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...Edward Grey, British Foreign Secretary, standing at his window in 1914. "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." But it is different down on the floor of the Senate, Ted Stevens ("How can we defend ... ?") and Robert Byrd ("Let the Soviets guess...") argue. So do others...
This new mood, according to Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia, will affect the whole new session of Congress. For example, according to Byrd, the concern about the Soviet Union's expansionism could help to pass Carter's major energy bills and the windfall-profits tax on oil companies. It will also eliminate just about all opposition to a 5% increase in the Pentagon budget. "The Soviets took care of that?in Kabul," said Byrd. A senior Defense Department offcial agreed. Said he, beaming: "We're going to get all the money we now need. The Congress will...
DIED. Finn Ronne, 80, American polar explorer; of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md. The son of a Norwegian sailmaker who had gone to Antarctica with Roald Amundsen and Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Ronne joined Byrd's 1933 expedition there as a radio operator and dogsled driver. Over the next 25 years, he returned to the South Pole eight times (thrice with his wife Edith, one of the first women to make the trip). On a 15-month trek in 1946-48, he disproved the notion that the continent was divided in two, and finished charting the Weddell...
...delay, wrote the President in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia, would allow the White House and the Congress to "assess Soviet actions and intentions, and devote our primary attention to the legislative and other measures required to respond to this crisis." Carter emphasized that SALT's eventual approval by the Senate would be "in the national security interest." The request for a delay was greeted with relief by SALT supporters, a number of whom had feared that there was no chance the arms pact could now win the two-thirds vote required for passage...
...most important issue before the U.S. Senate: the SALT II accord. With passage already in doubt, treaty supporters feared that the embassy takeover would strengthen SALT opponents, who argued against limiting U.S. power. Thus the vote was postponed until early in 1980, when Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd says it will receive "top priority." Says Byrd: "I have no reluctance whatsoever to call up SALT, even though I don't know where all the votes are." By the most optimistic Senate head count, the treaty remains at least half a dozen votes short of approval, and the Afghanistan crisis...