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...Fulbright...
...lawyer from the hills of Arkansas surprised everybody by defeating former Governor Orval Faubus in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. He then trounced the Republican incumbent, the late Winthrop Rockefeller. He easily won a second term in 1972 and then toppled the Senate's Foreign Relations Chairman J. William Fulbright in the primary last spring. He collected 85% of the vote last week against his outclassed G.O.P. opponent, John Harris Jones...
Walter Pincus said he disagrees with the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.), that the Congress can play a "major foreign policy role...
...influence the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee has on "its direction and tone," and said had Sen. John D. Sparkman (D-Ala) or Sen. George Aiken (R-Vt) chaired the committee during the Vietnam years, it would never have "taken on the administration" the way it did under Fulbright's leadership...
...Government cracked down. A jury decided that though the book was not obscene, Hamling's promotional brochure was. He drew a four-year sentence and $87,000 in fines. Three employees of his were also convicted. A 53-year-old millionaire who has published books by J. William Fulbright as well as Henry Miller, Hamling claimed that the prosecution was "a thinly disguised political move" by the Nixon Administration in retaliation for his large Democratic Party contributions. Nonetheless he will probably be jailed shortly, having just lost a final bid before the Supreme Court...