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Only a day earlier, conservatives from both sides of the Senate floor helped strangle an effort to strengthen the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Led by Sens. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) and Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), the conservatives survived a cloture vote needed to end their filibuster, and left liberals sputtering that it may be years before an effective fair housing bill is approved...
...Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), for instance, will probably take over from defeated Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) on the Intelligence Committee, while Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) will push Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) aside on the Judiciary Committee...
...heavyweights like (Sen.) Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.)--ranking Republican in the Senate Judiciary Committee--refuse to compromise on the big business issue, we could have fillibusters, and the whole thing could go right down the tubes," a Senate Judiciary Committee staffer said yesterday...
Candidates who have not yet received invitations include Gen. Alexander Haig, former Supreme Commander of NATO, Sen. Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) and Benjamin Fernandez, a chicano California businessman...
...Floyd Spence (R-S.C.) opposed the bill. "We're trying to appease our enemies," he said, adding, "We have given in and we have pushed around and we invite more of the same...