Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attending: Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Charles Schultze and Budget Boss James T. McIntyre Jr. Dissents are noted in reports to Carter, who of course reserves final decision for himself. But, says one breakfast clubber, "in the past three months Blumenthal has dominated that group and in effect had veto power over anything going to the President." The steering committee got its final recognition as a power center in November, when Vice President Walter Mondale began dropping in on its breakfasts?not for the food, but to find out what Carter was hearing about economics...
...community, a heavily liberal, white-collar mecca, has been notably appreciative. Mayor Paul Soglin, 32, a one-time student activist, canceled his subscriptions to the Capital Times and State Journal, and has given the weekly some scoops, like his plan to veto the city council's ban on nude dancing. The county district attorney and several religious leaders and university professors have issued statements backing the strikers. A striker-sponsored poll showed that 20% of readers had canceled their subscriptions or stopped buying either of the dailies since the strike began; the papers, however, report that circulation is down...
...Carter. My first initiative was this. Why not ask the five big powers in the Security Council to come to Jerusalem with the other parties concerned-Syria, Jordan, the Palestinians, Lebanon-and give every guarantee and assurance to Israel? Here would be the five big powers, with the veto and everything-richness, power, everything. Because they are heads of state, I can't tell them to sit in Jerusalem and discuss the whole problem. This would not be practical. All I aimed at is that they try to give the Israelis assurance of what will come out of this...
Though a version of the law has been on the books for eleven years, Watergate and revelations of FBI and CIA misconduct led to a radical change in its use. Over Gerald Ford's veto. Congress in 1974 amended the law, which now sets deadlines for responding, bans excessive copying fees for documents, and provides that winners of Freedom of Information court cases should have their legal fees paid for by the Government. Attorney General Griffin Bell applied another spur to information seekers last May, when he warned all Government agencies that his department would not defend them...
Before, during and after the visit, Sadat made it clear that a solution to the Palestinian problem was the key to any Middle East peace settlement. He had advised the Israelis not to be excessively legalistic in trying to veto whoever would represent the Palestinians at Geneva. His invitation to the West Bank leaders may also have been a warning to the P.L.O. to soften its anti-Israel stance in the interests of a greater good -a settlement that could lead to a Palestinian entity. Privately, some P.L.O. members thought that if the organization was being neglected by Arab moderates...