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...agreeable image of the Senate G.O.P. But electing the Tennessean, who only came to the Senate in 1967, would violate senatorial traditions of seniority. Some moderates were also fearful that elevating Baker, who has consistently voted with the Administration, would seem to add a cog to the Nixon-Thurmond "Southern strategy...
Already beatified among protesters as "the Chicago Eight," the defendants are the first to be indicted under the antiriot provision of the 1968 civil rights act. The provision was tacked onto the bill by a conservative Senate coalition led by South Carolina's Strom Thurmond. It may, in fact, be unconstitutional. A host of local, state and federal laws already cover acts of incitement to riot. What the antiriot provision defines as criminal is the "intent" to incite to riot. Thus the law prescribes a fine of $10,000 or five years in prison-or both-for anyone...
...panoply at the appointment. Haynsworth will be the first Southern addition to the Supreme Court since the civil rights upheaval began 15 years ago. Whatever the judge's qualifications, his appointment serves as partial payment by the Administration for the efforts of South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and others, who held five Southern and Border states for the G.O.P. against George Wallace's third-party depredations. Moreover, the choice fits neatly into Nixon's design for strengthening the Republicans in the South for the 1970 and 1972 elections...
Several weeks ago, Thurmond publicly endorsed his old friend Donald Russell, a federal district court judge and former Senator from South Carolina, for the Fortas seat. The endorsement may well have been sincere, but some suspected legerdemain. Anyone known as "Thurmond's man" would be a clear embarrassment to Nixon. By backing Russell, Thurmond in effect cleared the air for another South Carolinian, Haynsworth...
...process of dropping his equipment into the arms of South Viet Nam's President Thieu (5). Below, Rumania's President Ceausescu (6) listens apprehensively while Soviet Party Boss Brezhnev (7) tells him to cool it. The street sign and elephant symbolize the Republican Party, with Senator Strom Thurmond (8) and a liberal (9) representing its two wings. Finally, a poor man (10) gets his first look at the new welfare package to see what it contains. Overall, surfboard in hand, stands a smiling President. Says Oliphant: "I'd be smiling too, if I were going...