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Coleman's tempered and sensible decision immediately ran into flak. The Environmental Defense Fund filed a suit in federal court to overturn the ruling...
...Washington board should accept the review of the case, and should overturn the Boston ruling. The alternative would only be to deny workers the formation of a union which they deem best for themselves and a complete victory in Harvard's struggle to prevent Med area unionization...
Startling Defeat. Again the President spoke in congressional shorthand: "Sustain the veto, and well come in 300 million over." Translation: if we can beat the Democrats' attempt to overturn my veto, I'll settle for a bill that is $300 million above what I originally wanted. In reply, the Republican leaders offered Ford their optimistic assurance that the veto would be sustained. "We're not going to have any trouble," said...
From Emile Zola's "J'Accuse" on behalf of Alfred Dreyfus to Columnist William F. Buckley's decade-long effort to free convicted Murderer Edgar Smith, there has been a long history of laymen trying to overturn what they see as injustice wrought by police, lawyers and judges. Undoing the law's due process is an enormously difficult task. But last week two such efforts by laymen were gathering momentum and one was finally triumphant...
...President to veto the bill. At week's end Ford's closest advisers were still not certain whether the President would turn down the bill, thereby repudiating Zarb and angering millions of Americans who drive cars or heat their homes with oil. The odds that Congress would overturn a veto are too close to call...