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...assume a total nightmare. The electoral college doesn't pick a president, the House and Senate don't pick a president - all by Jan. 20. What happens? A: Clinton has to leave office and, under the Presidential Succession Act, Strom Thurmond, the president pro tempore of the Senate, becomes President...
...President Thurmond? A: Under this system, anything's possible...
...addition, the health of Republican Senators Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and Jesse Helms of North Carolina is questionable, and their departures would most likely result in Democratic Senators appointed by the Democratic governors in their respective states. Even if the Democrats only pick up one or two seats, they could be on their way to a majority...
...gram 24. Novi __, Serbia 26. Web short-hand meaning "editorially speaking" 27. Place to get roasted 29. Georgia, once: abbr. 30. Get the lead out of your shoes 31. Its President wants France to write off some debts 33. Word on Spanish air mail 35. Tolkien tree creature 36. Thurmond has petitioned him to lift the ban on Shoeless Joe 38. First name used to be Hafez; now it's Bashar 40. Rubbernecker 41. Legislation that would eliminate the need for paper contracts 42. Deer sirs 44. Antidiscrimination agcy. Thomas once chaired 45. Allied victory site of 7/18/44...
...your report on Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms [WORLD, May 29]: Oh, that fickle justice should have prevailed, leaving us to wonder if the bewildered voters of those great secessionist states would have enthroned Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond to decide the fate of their children, homes and tobacco farms if they had known how long these mucousy old men would stay in office. What twisted fate decreed that the rest of us must abide these cantankerous old curmudgeons on Capitol Hill, thanks to the dullards who sent them there? And with those two entrenched Senators being favorite...