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...hour of need, Roberts was not found wanting. Money started to pour in after the evangelist told of a visitation by a 900-ft.-tall Jesus who said, "I told you I would speak to your partners and through them I would build it." And objections were overridden after state officials were hit with thousands of letters from Roberts' followers. The evangelist says he persisted in the four-year effort because if he did not build the City of Faith, "I would be disobedient...
...Edward J. King yesterday vetoed the bottle-recycling bill, calling it a costly addition to government regulation, but legislative supporters of the bill said yesterday it could be overridden...
...budget cuts Reagan sought, slashing urban mass transit subsidies, long-term unemployment compensation and milk for nursing mothers, among many other programs. But the majority of Democrats fought hard to limit reductions in some major "entitlement" programs, which provide benefits for anyone who meets certain qualifications. The defenders were overridden by a coalition of Republicans and conservative Southern Democrats on these major points...
...student committee, which governs fraternities and whose decision could be overridden by the administration, concluded that "Tom acted by himself, as an individual, and that Chi Psi acted as best they could to prevent any problems," Mark Scerbo, the panel's chairman, said...
...Congress remains Democratic and goes for big-spending programs, Reagan would use vetoes the way he did in California. He cast nearly 1,000 during his eight years as Governor, and only a handful were overridden. He would make a pass at dismantling the Department of Education and the Department of Energy. Reagan would use commerce and industry as a talent pool far more than Carter has. The regulating agencies would take on more of a pro-business cast...