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...hurt his career. The Sovereignty Commission agent who is indirectly responsible for the murder of the three civil rights activists in 1964 is now a staff member for Rep. Mike Parker, another Mississippi Republican. Even the two old and grizzled, foes of racial equality, Jesse Helms (R, N.C.) and Strom Thurmond (R, S.C.), continue to infest the Senate...
...Strom Thurmond needs just seven more months in office to break the longevity record of Arizona Senator Carl Hayden, who served 41 years, 10 months and 11 days before he left Congress in 1969. With Thurmond's victory over challenger Elliott Close, it looks as if the 93-year-old chairman of the Armed Services Committee will make it. Close, 43, a textile heir and real estate developer with a virtually invisible profile and a nonexistent political record, had barely a chance against South Carolina's reigning Republican. Even the challenger's last-minute barrage of TV ads attempting...
...that was the last victory for a Democratic presidential candidate in South Carolina--the state gave George Bush his second highest percentage (after Mississippi) in the nation in 1992. A one-man symbol of this trend--and many others--is the state's 93-year-old Senior Senator Strom Thurmond, who, in his 67-year political career, has been both a Democrat and Republican and, by the end of next term, may also be the oldest Senator ever...
...stake in the Carolina Panthers pro-football team--Close calls himself a fiscal conservative and social moderate. He advocates campaign finance reform that would limit spending to $1 per constituent and eliminate PAC contributions, which he does not accept. Whether or not Close makes age an issue, Strom Thurmond did enter the Senate the year after the challenger's birth...
...STROM THURMOND (R) SENIOR SENATOR...