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Technically, the OAS ministers are meeting to amend the 1947 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (the Treaty of Rio), under which the embargo was initially imposed. The aim was to drop the two-thirds majority provision on the lifting of sanctions and replace it with a simple majority vote. The change requires a two-thirds majority, but at least 14 of the 21 Rio Treaty signers were expected to go along...
Last week the Washington Post, which got a tape of the meeting, published some quotes, and Wallace rushed to amend the record, by coincidence on the 30th anniversary of V-E day. In World War II, he said, the U.S. was "fighting the right people, but our diplomacy led us to fight people who should have been our friends." That revision made Wallace's original statement sound more reasonable, but his remarks will add to the worry in the liberal and moderate wings of the Democratic Party, which are already alarmed by his steady rise in the presidential polls...
...articulated by the Administration, far more clearly than the Ford Administration has done. Indeed, that should be one of the definitions of an Administration: that it has a clear view of the national purpose. Opposition politicians are entitled to oppose. Private citizens may agree or disagree, or improve and amend as they...
...million in emergency military aid to the Saigon government. He urged the Congress to clarify his now murky authority to use American troops in Viet Nam for "the limited purpose of protecting American lives by ensuring their evacuation, if this should become necessary." He also pleaded with Congress to amend existing law so that he could employ the same forces to help bring out the vulnerable South Vietnamese?to whom, he said, the U.S. has a "special obligation." And Ford set an urgent deadline of the end of this week for Congress...
With the depletion issue essentially settled, Senators rushed to amend the Finance Committee's bill. As the amendments piled up, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield moved adroitly to keep the Senate from snarling itself in endless debate over tangential items. He moved successfully to substitute his own package of tax cuts, which was relatively close to the original committee bill. That got the Senate moving again, and although there were other amendments, the bill that emerged included the following tax benefits...