Word: leaders
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...official. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, who has spent months in public doubting and questioning, is now backing the SALT II treaty. To reporters crowded into a Senate conference room last week, the powerful West Virginia Democrat declared that the strategic arms pact with Moscow "is in our national interest" and could "help diminish the potential for nuclear destruction." Though widely anticipated, this clear-cut endorsement gave SALT II a badly needed boost. Without Byrd's active support, the treaty would have little chance of winning the two-thirds vote required for Senate approval. To be sure, passage still...
...others, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Henry Kissinger, heads of several NATO countries, and, during a special summer visit to the Soviet Union, Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. With this background, Byrd expects to be able to advise those Senators who may be unsure of the issues. And as majority leader, he can be expected to pressure, and protect politically, those who may waver...
...Republicans last week continued ''marking up''-going over line by line-the proposed resolution of ratification. During the ''mark-up,'' amendments can be introduced and voted upon by committee members. Among the most notable offered last week were several by Minority Leader Howard Baker that dealt with the Soviet monopoly on large-scale ICBMS...
...years there have been increasing fears that Kim II Sung, 67, North Korea's self-appointed ''great and beloved leader,'' might try once more to fulfill his lifelong dream of reuniting the peninsula by conquest. The crisis in the South seemed just the sort of opportunity that might tempt him to gamble on an American lack of resolve...
...with a highhanded abuse of the virtually absolute powers he held under the 1972 constitution. He had conducted a repressive vendetta against Kim Young Sam, head of the opposition New Democratic Party. Kim incurred Park's wrath by defying a 1975 decree against criticizing the government. The opposition leader publicly called Park's regime "basically dictatorial" and urged the U.S. to "pressure" Park into granting long-denied human rights. Park ordered his tame majority in the 231 -member National Assembly to expel Kim. Overnight, the 69 other opposition members angrily resigned from the assembly in protest...