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...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...
...THURMOND SOUTH CAROLINA...
...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...
...STROM THURMOND (R) SENIOR SENATOR...
...only living man to lose the presidency to Harry Truman, in 1954 Thurmond also became the only U.S. Senator ever elected by write-in votes. (He also educated himself in law and went on to pass the state bar.) If he wins and completes this term, Thurmond will also be the oldest Senator ever...