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Congress evidently lost the power to order the troops out earlier by "concurrent resolution" when the Supreme Court last June declared that such "legislative vetoes" were unconstitutional. Last week, when Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia introduced compromise legislation regarding the Marine deployment, it was in the form...
In other actions in the House the Banking Committee's subcommittee on financial institutions is currently considering legislation even more radical in its provision on South Africa policy. House Resolution 1693, introduced by Rep. Steven Solarz (D.N.Y). Stipulates that the United States forbid all bank loans to South Africa from...
The trouble is that there is no quick fix, even granting the greatest imaginable success for Administration policy. Suppose, for example, Nicaragua and Cuba, intimidated by the military maneuvers and the contra campaign, agreed to a verifiable end to their provision of arms and advisers to the Salvadoran guerrillas. There...
A provision was added reducing the first batch of missiles to 21. The MX will face another tough test in the fall, when the 1984 defense appropriations bill comes before Congress. Said
Louisiana's one thirty-second standard had been originally intended as a reform. It superseded the state courts' long standing practice of defining a black as someone with "any traceable amount" of "colored" ancestry. The one thirty-second provision automatically made thousands of fractionally black Louisianians legally white...