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...expected to extend their current scramble for the center to a point somewhat farther to the right. A possible development: a repeat of the 1969 liberal v. conservative fight for the post of Democratic whip. Ted Kennedy, who defeated Russell Long, could easily be toppled by conservative Robert Byrd...
VIRGINIA: Following the breakup of the traditional Byrd machine, a three-way Senate race developed between the incumbent, Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr.; George Rawlings, a liberal Democrat; and Ray Garland, a conservative Republican. The result will determine both who holds the reigns of power in the state and in the once-omnipotent Democratic party...
Candidates receiving UNAF assistance include Joseph P. Duffey, a Democrat seeking to wrest the Party's nomination from Sen. Thomas Dodd, George Rawlings, a Virginia Democrat seeking the seat now held by Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr., and Andrew Young, a former aid to Martin Luther King, who is seeking the Democratic nomination to the House from Georgia's fifth district...
...movements in Cambodia or to support foreign troops in defending the present Cambodia government against the Communists. The first critical vote on such restrictions, embodied in the Cooper-Church amendment to a military funding bill, came on a pro-Nixon move by West Virginia's Democratic Senator Robert Byrd. He offered a provision that would remove any restrictions against a future move into Cambodia if the President considered it necessary for the protection of U.S. troops in South Viet Nam. Since that was the Administration's public rationale for the initial Cambodian venture, Byrd's change would...
...Byrd amendment, and the issue became in effect a vote of confidence in the President on Cambodia. As Idaho's dovish Senator Frank Church put it: "We stand up now, or we roll over and play dead." Republicans who had been engaging in a muted filibuster to block any substantive vote detected growing support for the President and permitted a vote. But on the roll call, the Administration lost some Republicans it had hoped to land, including William Saxbe of Ohio and Oregon's Robert Packwood. When the Byrd amendment was declared lost, 52 to 47, some spectators...