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That night, just before Chokel went to the printers with the BAP story, five black students visited him in his room and insisted that he not run the article. One of the blacks was Wilbur Stevens, general manager of the HarBus, whose veto of the BAP editorial had been overridden. Chokel said, "I think now I would have refused to speak to Wil unless they left. Wil was bringing in outside forces who shouldn't have been here." A white proprietor said that the five black students "weren't going there to get 'no' for an answer...
...lines of force. Yet the lines kept distorting into caricature: the free-spending, socially conscious heirs to the New Deal v. the business-minded, anti-inflation Nixonians. An army of 700 amateur education lobbyists converged on Capitol Hill, limning the social misery that would ensue unless the veto were overridden. Meantime the White House staff put intense pressure on House Republicans. Two days after the veto, House Democratic leaders fell 52 votes short of the two-thirds majority necessary to override the veto. With 226 members supporting the bill and 191 behind the Administration, the measure went back...
...Breathitt County's Congressman, Carl D. Perkins, who, as chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, is responsible for all poverty legislation. Pushing for a two-year extension of the OEO authorization act, Perkins fears loss of badly needed Republican support if Nunn's veto is overridden. At the same time, he finds it politically necessary to back Mrs. Howell, whose support is an important ingredient to his own reelection...
...Dalton Overridden...
...Communist-minded Zanzibar without falling prey to the Reds, last year promoted a unique experiment in one-party elections: his Tanzania Africa National Union put up two candidates for each post, with the result that several of his own Cabinet ministers were defeated. Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta has overridden the intense tribal rival ries of the Luo and his own Kikuyu and made a national fetish out of harambee (togetherness), winning the good will of most white settlers in the bargain. Even the disappointments have not been total. The personal tyranny of Ghana's Nkrumah has been succeeded...