Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exorbitant levels. The House went along with this proposal; but the Senate, after a bitter, failed filibuster by members from gas-consuming states, voted to remove regulations from all natural gas. The conference committee has yet to get to this issue, but since Carter has said that he will veto any bill that deregulates natural gas, the proper compromise would be a continuance of price controls, but at a higher level than Carter wants...
Third World countries, led by black African states, had wanted a total economic boycott. The U.S., Britain and France joined in the veto of such a proposal in the Security Council two weeks ago. But even an economic boycott would not have had much immediate effect. For example, South Africa reportedly has stockpiled a three-year supply of oil, it has the technology to produce more oil from its virtually unlimited cache of coal, and a friendly nation, Iran, is co-owner of South Africa's major refinery. An economic embargo would surely hurt some of South Africa's vulnerable...
...United Nations last week to a mandatory embargo on all military sales to the Vorster regime does not substantially alter America's official posture, which for over a decade has been voluntary refusal to deal arms to South Africa. The U.S. decision, meanwhile, to use its Security Council veto to block proposals for equivalent embargoes on trade and investment suggests that the Carter administration still holds out hope for bringing an end to the white government's apartheid policies from within. Yet there would now seem to be more than enough evidence that any such faith is misplaced...
Lynn M. Sadok, an "exposure" staff member, said yesterday Madson's statement was "no surprise." She added, "As a collective, we haven't made a decision as to what our move will be." "We still continue to oppose the right of the administration to veto student allocated funds, since these funds are initiated by the students' $20 activities fee," Sadok added...
...paper. Linking the two just shows Israel's paranoia." Defending the declaration, the Administration points to the significant Soviet concessions embodied in it: acknowledgment by Moscow for the first time of the Israeli demand for "true peace," omission of any specific reference to the P.L.O., acceptance of an Israeli veto over the nature of any international guarantees of the ultimate borders. In its effort to knock down charges of a SALT sellout, the Administration got some help from the Syrians: they were as critical of the declaration as the Israelis?only their complaint was that their Soviet patrons had been...