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When Congress returned from its Labor Day recess, the stage was set for a showdown. Early last week leaders of both parties were predicting privately that the House would sustain the veto, but support for the President slowly began to erode. Many members were convinced by the argument that the bill was not a "budget buster," as Reagan had charged; indeed, the $14.2 billion measure actually costs $2 billion less than the original Reagan proposal. Contended House Democratic Floor Leader Jim Wright of Texas: "The claim that the bill is over budget is as phony as a three-dollar bill...
...Neill, with familiar hyperbole: "By vetoing this measure, the President wants us to make a choice between weapons and handicapped children." The Speaker had sensed the mood of the House: 81 Republicans abandoned Reagan to join 220 Democrats in overriding the veto; only 13 Democrats joined 104 Republicans to sustain...
...Senate, where Republican Majority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee was caught off guard. He had expected the House to sustain the veto, thus making a Senate vote unnecessary. After the House action, a shocked Baker made a hasty head count. He discovered that the Republicans did not even have 20 votes to block a veto override in the Senate...
...departing Palestinians, it was a time of brave words and wrenching farewells. In hundreds of cases, men left for unknown destinations, leaving wives and families behind. P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat called the long siege of Beirut and the evacuation "a victory for the resistance." The P.L.O. did manage to sustain the sense of an honorable retreat, with flags flying and the endless cannonades and thunderous volleys of rockets. The departing guerrillas and the friends who saw them off fired their automatic rifles and machine guns so furiously that a U.S. Marine said he felt as though he were...
...King agreed that the P.L.O., not Jordan, would represent the interests of the 720,000 residents of the West Bank, the Jordanian territory that was occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. Moreover, Hussein had to accept about 2,000 P.L.O. guerrillas in order to sustain his hopes of becoming the leading spokesman for the moderate Arab states. Hussein is confident that he has enough control of the restive factions of his country to permit the return of the guerrillas, who will be housed with their families...