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Kissinger denounced the cancellation of the meeting and pointed out, quite accurately, that the Administration had opposed the clause concerning OPEC members from the first but was overridden by Congress. Then the Administration persuaded Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas to introduce an amendment to the act that would grant nondiscriminatory trade treatment to those oil exporters that had not participated in last year's oil embargo...
...Barry Goldwater, who was simply stating in his customary blunt way what most other members of Congress, and a fan- number of Americans generally, feel. Last week the President was handed a smashing defeat, partly by his own party, when his veto of a veterans' benefits bill was overridden by a vote of 394 to 10 in the House and 90 to 1 in the Senate. The measure, which increased educational aid to veterans by 22.7%, was inflationary, and it was consistent for Ford to veto it. But little White House effort was made to gauge the reaction...
...potential power. Senior and more conservative Democrats still have practical influence as chairmen of many committees. Yet the changes, coupled with an increasingly liberal Senate, suggest that Congress will sharply challenge President Ford's view of desirable legislation. Even without the caucus reforms, Congress has already overridden four Ford vetoes-only one less than throughout the 5% Nixon years...
...transfer of power has not made everyone happy, and Portugal's President António de Spínola, whose colleagues had overridden his pledge that independence would come only after a referendum in each territory, looked disgruntled as he signed the documents freeing Guinea-Bissau. In fact, he said not one word during the two-minute ceremony. He is so embittered by the rush toward decolonization that having twice tried but failed to gain for himself stronger powers, he is now said to be on the verge of resigning. He is certain that the guerrilla movements that...
...seemed a storm in a stirrup cup. "Columbus was overridden and possibly even terrified," declared an outraged TV viewer of the Badminton horse trials in Gloucestershire. Animal Lover Jean Pyke was attacking Captain Mark Phillips for his handling of the hunter that had been lent to him by his mother-in-law for the grueling three-day contest of dressage, show and cross-country jumping. A big gray, Columbus had galloped off with the Whitbread Trophy to the delight of Winner Mark and Owner Queen Elizabeth, and the wifely acquiescence of Princess Anne, who placed fourth in the event. Mark...