Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that policy statement Bok announced that, "Harvard would not enter on any study where a foreign government could veto the employment of certain Harvard personnel on the grounds of religion...
...General Assembly resolution calling for an end to the U.N. mandate in Korea under which the American troops are stationed south of the DMZ. Washington will keep the American forces in place no matter what happens at the U.N., since only the Security Council, where the U.S. has a veto, can actually abolish the command. There is speculation that the U.S. will agree to discuss the removal of its troops from under the U.N. command structure before a vote is taken in the General Assembly. In either case, the resulting propaganda gains for Pyongyang would be an unwanted sign...
Still, some upturn is better than no upturn: housing is at least ceasing to be a drag on the national economy. The budding upturn will probably reinforce President Ford's determination to veto this week an "emergency" housing bill passed by Congress two weeks ago. The bill was designed to encourage the building of 400,000 new houses mainly by providing mortgage subsidies to middle-income home buyers. But it probably would have no effect until well after the slump was ended...
...kind of grace note to this chaotic symphony, the House last week failed, by three votes, to override a presidential veto of a bill to regulate more strictly the strip mining of coal. As a result, somewhat more critically needed coal will be produced, but at the expense of the environment. The bill's environmental safeguards would not have compounded the energy problem if the nation had a coordinated energy policy. As it was, however, the vote merely highlighted the inability of the White House and Capitol Hill to come up with such a policy, or of the Democratic...
...been achieved by them. But belligerent campaigns for ethnic and racial pride fragmented the nation with new chauvinisms. The fertile pleasures of an immigrant nation were displaced by cold-blooded quotas - unashamed power struggles of Americans against themselves. The struggle for minority rights became a demand for minority veto...