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...Senate, acting majority leader Robert C. Byrd said he thinks "there would be a great deal" of Senate backing for a proposal to bar U.S. air support for any South Vietnamese invasion of North Vietnam...
...think the American people would support such an invasion," Byrd told reporters yesterday. He added that he might support the proposal by Sen. Walter F. Mondale (D-Minn.), and 18 other senators, barring an American invasion of North Vietnam...
...membership of the subcommittee-which is a branch of Senate Judiciary Committee-includes Senators Robert C Byrd (D-W. Va.), Strom Thur-mond (R-S.C.), Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), Sam J. Ervin (D-N.C.), John McClelian (D-A??k.), and Hugh Scott...
...ironic, since Kennedy won the whip job two years ago by waging a quiet telephone campaign against an establishment type, Louisiana's Russell Long, who had shirked his work. But when Ted took over and absented himself frequently to attend to other matters, the club turned against him too. Byrd, as secretary of the Democratic Conference, carried much of Kennedy's load. Thus there was at least a half-truth in Byrd's kindly explanation that "this was not a slap at Kennedy?it was an affirmation of the job I had been doing...
...Senate. A few Senators even thought that the affront just might goad Kennedy into saying "to hell with them" and running away. Assuming that Kennedy, as he repeatedly proclaimed, had no intention of jumping into the 1972 race, the defeat was not a total gain for Nixon. Byrd may be more philosophically attuned to some Nixon programs, but he takes his partisan role seriously and is a far more abrasive and belligerent scrapper AP than either Majority Leader Mike Mansfield or Kennedy...