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...longer negotiations continue between U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Ellsworth Bunker and Panamanian Strongman Brigadier General Omar Torrijos Herrera, the more obstacles seem to crop up. A conservative bloc led by South-Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond flatly opposes surrender of U.S. sovereignty over the canal; 34 votes in the Senate are enough to defeat a treaty embodying the terms of the Bunker negotiations, and at the moment Thurmond's bloc appears to have them. Thurmond is vocally supported on the scene by Zonians-especially the 4,500 U.S. civilians who operate the canal; some of their families have...
Born. To Strom Thurmond, 73, fourth-term Dixiecrat-turned-Republican Senator from South Carolina, and former Beauty Queen Nancy Moore Thurmond, 29: a second son, fourth child; in Greenwood...
General Dynamics attracted the real pros: Senators Strom Thurmond and Howard Cannon and Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres, who may have about $2 billion in aid to spend on weapons if Congress approves the Israeli-Egyptian accord. They climbed into a mock-up cockpit of the F-16 fighter and were briefed on a computerized projection device...
Rocky was also a hit the next day in Columbia. Flanked by two pillars of Southern conservatism, South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond and Governor James Edwards, Rocky stood on the steps of an antebellum mansion and declared his "very deep belief in states' rights." The welfare system would have to be revised, he said, to "avoid the cheats-to see that those who don't belong on the rolls don't benefit. We've run out of money. We've got to live within our means...
Once again, Rocky was facetiously accused of plagiarism. Said Edwards: "The things he's saying sound like they might come from my speeches or Senator Thurmond's." But Edwards, like other Southern skeptics, promised to continue to monitor Rocky's speeches to make sure his conversion is genuine. Even South Carolina Representative Floyd Spence, who voted against Rocky's confirmation as Vice President, mellowed a bit. "I'm not sure the philosophy attributed to Rockefeller was always accurate...