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...true that the YRs adopted a right-wing platform full of hostility towards the Soviet Consular Treaty and civil rights legislation. And all the arch-conservative candidates for the national offices--including former Birchite Dottee Francher of Arizona, the new co-chairman--scored easy victories over more moderate opponents. But the fact that new chairman Jack McDonald represents ultra-conservatism is not half so significant as the fact that he represents a small faction, known almost mystically as "the Syndicate...
...party unity. Though he is a liberal on most issues, and at 47 a symbol of the G.O.P.'s rising generation, Percy heaped praise on Nebraska's venerable conservative Senators, Carl Curtis and Roman Hruska-with whom he had just parted company over ratification of the Soviet consular treaty. "I've learned a lot by listening to them," professed Percy. "Even when we don't vote together, we walk out of the Senate chamber arm in arm." Beamed Hruska: "That's my kind of Republican...
...Senate, Percy has been the most active of the freshman Republicans, giving energetic support to ratification of the consular treaty and introducing a pet program to stimulate home ownership among low-income groups. His housing proposal attracted 27 cosponsors, rare backing for a Senate neophyte...
...Communist Party leaders, most of whom were uninvolved in the terrorism. The Russians did not blink an eye or utter a protest; they just pressed right ahead with discussions for expanding last year's $3,000,000 worth of trade between the two countries and setting up consular relations...
Signed in 1964 but promptly consigned to limbo by the Senate, the U.S.Soviet consular treaty last week finally won approval. After voting down six attempts to weaken or destroy it, the Senate ratified the treaty 66 to 28, three votes more than the required two-thirds majority...