Word: filibusterer
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Senator Mike Gavel (D-Alaska) said yesterday that he will filibuster any bill to extend the draft past the present law's June 30 expiration date.
Grayel's intention to filibuster may be complicated by the proposed attachment to any draft extension bill of a McGovern-Hatfield amendment. This announcement would prohibit the stationing of any U. S. troops in Southeast Asia after December, 1971.
Mark Schneider, a Kennedy legislative aid, does not foresee a split among antiwar Senators over a draft bill amended to end the war. "I'm almost sure Gravel will make a statesmanlike decision if the McGovern-Hatfield amendment is passed and decide not to filibuster," Schneider said yesterday, "and if...
Born. To Strom Thurmond, 68, South Carolina's Republican Senator, and Nancy Moore Thurmond, 24, former Miss South Carolina (1966): their first child, a girl; in Greenwood, S.C. Name: Nancy Moore. Watching her perform noisily in her crib, Thurmond quipped: "I believe she's staging a filibuster."
By the time the major civil rights battles began in the Senate, Russell had so much stature-and was so well versed in parliamentary procedure-that he led the Southern forces. "Dick Russell and his Dixieland Band," 19 Senators joined in common cause, managed to delay and obfuscate until cloture...