Word: vetoes
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...council's report on the ACSR primarily called on Bok to relinquish veto power over representatives selected to the ACSR and to make the body more democratic and accountable to the members' constituencies through elections. Currently, widely varying bodies either elect or appoint alumni, student and faculty representatives, and faculty and alumni appointments are subject to Bok's approval...
...part it is the power of veto: the P.L.O. is widely thought to have the ability to upset any Middle East peace settlement by terror attacks. But also someone has to speak for the Palestinians, and for all the P.L.O.'s divisions, no realistic substitute has yet been found. Says one U.S. diplomat: "The equation has not been changed. You cannot say, 'These bozos have no place.' No one in the West Bank or in Gaza or anywhere else is saying, 'Let's finish with the P.L.O.' " So the P.L.O. lurches and stumbles...
Nevertheless, the President seemed determined not to yield on any tax issues whatsoever. Late last week White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan wrote to Dole saying that the President might veto the Senate's hard-won deficit-reduction plan for fiscal 1986 because of tax increases on cigarettes and some imported goods and a new tax on manufacturers to help pay for toxic- waste cleanups. Despite Reagan's hang-tough posture, a top White House aide admitted that "we may be whistling past the graveyard" on the chances of seeing the cherished tax-reform proposal emerge from Congress...
...same time, the President flatly threatened to "veto measures that I believe will . . . diminish international trade." In essence, he was trying to deliver a message to Congress that might be paraphrased this way: Yes, I know we are in deep trouble on international trade. But this is a matter for painstaking, case-by-case negotiation with nations that we want to retain as friends and allies. Don't tie my hands, and above all don't take a chance on starting a global trade war, by enacting sweeping restrictions on U.S. imports...
...bills to come close to a vote, the textile measure is a kind of test case of protectionist sentiment. Present outlook: some version of it will sail through both chambers of Congress; after all, bipartisan majorities of both House and Senate have signed on as co-sponsors. Reagan will veto it, repeating dire warnings that U.S. protectionism could once again provoke foreign retaliation against what remains of American exports (which is plenty: the U.S. is still the world's biggest exporter by 27% over runner-up West Germany). Such retaliation is what happened after Congress passed the disastrous Smoot-Hawley...