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...committed a deliberate attack should be acquitted because he watched too many movies." On Capitol Hill, shock at the verdict was quickly translated into pressure for legislation. "This case demonstrates there is something fundamentally wrong with the expanded modern insanity defense," said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania called five of the jurors to testify before a special Senate hearing on ways to make the insanity law clearer...
Judiciary Committee approval hinged on Chairman Strom Thurmond's willingness to give ground on his long-held segregationist views. Although the South Carolina Republican did not vote for the compromise, he decided not to fight it after long talks with fellow Senators and an unusual two-hour private meeting with Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Surmised Hooks: "In his own way, I think he doesn't want to be remembered as a bigot." In essence, the compromise devised by Senators Robert Dole, Edward Kennedy and Charles Mathias decreed that...
Forman: There's a real danger with identifying yourself with any label at all because of the people with whom you will then be identified. I've run into problems calling myself "conservative" being president of thins club, because of people like (Senators Jesse) Helms and (Strom) Thurmond and (Reverend Jerry) Falwell, with whom I'd never want to be identified...
...Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and Strom Thurmond (R-SC) sponsored the bill Democratic leaders in the Senate have expressed dismay that Kennedy normally a liberal, has backed the measure
...received approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee with a powerful array of backers, among them the Reagan Administration, Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S-C.) and, amazingly, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.). A spokesman for the liberal Democratic leader said this week that descriptions of the bill by groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union had been exaggerated and that the Senator believes it would accomplish the crucial goal of more efficient federal crime statutes. He did not explain that Kennedy had sponsored earlier incarnations of S. 1630 as a good-will gesture to conservatives when...