Word: vetoes
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Reagan also faces continuing tension with U.S. allies in Europe over his decision to produce the neutron bomb. The U.S. veto of a U.N. Security Council resolution criticizing South Africa's military operations in Angola has further isolated the U.S. from its allies and angered most African nations. Meetings will begin this month between Secretary Haig and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at which negotiations on limiting theater nuclear forces in Europe should be scheduled...
...have been set up to deter South African cross-border raids. After previous South African incursions, and subsequent calls for condemnation of South Africa at the U.N., the U.S. had abstained from chastising Pretoria and at least once joined a vote of disapproval. But last week's veto indicated that the Reagan Administration has other ideas. It apparently sees no gain in trying to prod Pretoria's apartheid regime, especially by public condemnation, into a change. It also prefers to view developments in southern Africa as part of an overall East-West confrontation rather than a black-white...
When the Reagan Administration proposed selling some $5 billion worth of air weaponry, including five highly sophisticated Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, to Saudi Arabia last April, there was little doubt that opposition might be strong enough in Congress to veto the deal. Republican Senators Howard Baker of Tennessee and Paul Laxalt of Nevada advised the President to delay official notification of his intent to make the sale until he had enough votes lined up to support the package. Reagan waited, and last week sent that notification to Congress...
...before the House vote, the President invited 15 pivotal Democrats to Camp David for an all-American afternoon of hot dogs, hamburgers and homily. Among them was Glenn English, a fourth-term Congressman from Oklahoma. Reagan followed up the hamburger with a handwritten note to "Dear Glenn," promising to veto any bills that would authorize a windfall-profits tax on natural gas. English later showed the note to colleagues of his with natural gas interests among their constituents. They, like English, voted Reagan...
According to the Commission, the law allowing the church and school veto has been on the books since 1933. It was drafted to placate the Women's Christian Temperance Union and other prohibitionist groups as America's experiment with a liquor-less state came to a close, one commission member said...