Word: repeals
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...attack on two U.S. destroyers by a group of North Vietnamese torpedo boats in 1964, he sought and got from Congress the Tonkin Gulf resolution, which gave him carte blanche to use U.S. forces however he chose in Viet Nam. The Senate voted two weeks ago to repeal the Tonkin Gulf resolution, but the Nixon Administration had never relied on it anyway. By depending so heavily on his role as Commander in Chief, the President has committed himself to a new rationale for his actions in Indochina-a rationale that simultaneously says too little and too much. The imprecision implies...
...Dole, 46. After last week, none of his colleagues doubts that he is. Seeking to seize the initiative on the peace issue, the Kansas conservative pulled off a legislative coup that left the Democrats dumbfounded. Aware that Senators J. William Fulbright and Charles Mathias were planning to propose the repeal of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, he stole the issue out from under the doves by offering it himself. Fulbright was outraged by the theft and voted against the repeal because the manner in which it was offered was "meaningless." To Dole's satisfaction and amusement, the repeal...
Last week the city's health authorities strove to work out a set of equitable and uniform rules. Doctors in several individual hospitals were drawing up their own rules, more restrictive than the code. This brought from Lawrence Lader, chairman of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, the charge that "the medical establishment is flouting the will of the people and of the legislature." He threatened to take the issue to the courts if the clear intent of the law is not carried...
...yearly average. In order to avoid triggering the quota, foreign suppliers are refraining from shipping in as much meat as they could. That restriction on the supply of one of the most important items that U.S. consumers buy helps keep up the price. A legislative drive to repeal quotas and subsidies would be in the national interest, though it would no doubt bring shrieks from every special-interest group in the country. At very least, the Nixon Administration could reverse its steps toward further protectionism, such as its campaign to force Japan to limit textile shipments...
...Nixon has attempted to allay ?rs by urging repeal of the 1950 ?t Richard H. lchord (D.-Mo.), ? of the House Internal Security ?ee, said repeal of the law, with ?ntees of civil liberties, would ?e President even greater leeway ? unlimited roundups of dissidents ? of Japanese-Americans during...