Word: repeals
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...label any dispute "domestic" and therefore beyond the jurisdiction of the court. That self-judging escape clause cripples the court and mocks the professed U.S. goal of a world rule of law. Last week a group of prominent Americans launched a campaign of public education and debate aimed at repeal of the Connally Reservation by the Senate next year...
...Manhattan-based committee will press at both political conventions for platform planks pledging repeal. Already on record favoring repeal of the Reservation are President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, Secretary of State Herter, ex-President Truman, Adlai Stevenson, and all Democratic presidential candidates except Lyndon Johnson...
...farm program off its back. Also in Congress last week: ¶ The Senate, by a surprising 84-0 roll-call vote, passed up an election-year tax cut, rejected the proposal of the powerful Senate Finance Committee (made over Chairman Harry Byrd's objections) for repeal of 10% excise tax on travels, telegrams and local telephone service. Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson called vacationing Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson before the debate, heard from his fellow Texan what repeal would mean to the Treasury: loss of $750 million in tax revenue, a slimmer surplus in fiscal...
...vote, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week postponed "to a later time" (translation: to a later session of Congress) any hopeful attempt to repeal the so-called Connally Reservation of 1946, a roadblock to effective U.S. use of the World Court for settling international disputes. Both President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon had sought the abolition as a step toward world rule of law. Secretary of State Christian Herter and Attorney General William P. Rogers took strong stands in testimony before the committee. The move to repeal was sponsored by Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, had the support...
...difficult." But he does not foresee an effort to pass any further laws barring birth control, though "here is an area where there will be a good deal of conflict in the future." Historian Schlesinger agrees that future birth control legislation is unlikely, but castigates Catholic resistance to repeal of existing laws in Massachusetts and Connecticut (passed by Yankee Protestants in the 18703) as "mistaken and offensive...