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...Republicans to organize the House of Representatives and name the committee chairmen. If the legislative branch is in the hands of a conservative coalition, he argues, then the minority liberals must expose and attack the conservative power centers of Southern legislators. He excepted the Senate and, presumably, Senator Fulbright. The objective of a Southern purge, though, might also be accomplished through Congressional reform of the seniority system. Congressional reform deserves a much higher priority of the two. It would channel increased liberal energies into the legislative branch as an instrument for social change...
...rare show of unanimity that united William Fulbright and Barry Goldwater, however, the Senate voted to bar U.S. funding of foreign expeditionary forces that might be sent into Cambodia or Laos. The Administration opposes the restriction. Even if the measure survives a House-Senate conference, which is uncertain, it would not affect limited border operations. But it would cover large-scale incursions by Thais and South Vietnamese troops, unless Bangkok and Saigon want to pay their own way, and it could well complicate Agnew's mission...
...constantly complains that the U.S. Senate is being ignored, Arkansas Senator J.W. Fulbright consistently manages to grab a remarkable amount of national attention. He was at his testy best again last week. He took on the Administration, charging that it had "tailored and even changed facts" in rushing a renewal agreement with Spain concerning the use of U.S. military bases there. He also assailed the television industry for doing as much to expand the powers of the presidency "as would a constitutional amendment formally abolishing the [other two] branches of Government." Both attacks were in line with Fulbright...
...Spain. Fulbright said that he had no basic quarrel with the contents of the five-year agreement signed last week by Secretary of State William Rogers and Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs Gregorio López Bravo; in fact, he added, he would probably vote for it if it were submitted to the Senate as a treaty to be ratified. But that had not been done, and that is what irked Fulbright...
...instead of being worked out in secret, and he noted that it will be submitted for approval to Spain's legislative body, the Cortes. He found it ironic that on this topic "there is more open discussion'' in the restrictive Franco regime than in the U.S. Fulbright wondered why the Administration routinely handles such trivial matters as a cooperative effort with Mexico to help recover and return "stolen archaeological, historical and cultural properties" by Senate-ratified treaty, but makes a consequential deal with Franco by executive stipulation. Fulbright threatened to seek a congressional...