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Lewis has rejected all three of the council's bills submitted to him thus far, including his recent decision to veto a proposal to ban the annual ROTC commissioning ceremony in Harvard Yard...
...council passed a bill Feb. 26 known as the Nelson-Grimmelmann act, which asked Lewis either to sign into college law or veto all future legislation...
...President Jacques Chirac. That prospect rattles members of the Clinton Administration, since Bob Dole gets applause by pillorying Boutros-Ghali as an architect of Clinton's foreign policy. The Administration does not yet have an alternative, but may try to dissuade Boutros-Ghali by threatening to exercise the U.S. veto. Who else might be in the running? A safe option would be a veteran diplomat, such as Kofi Annan of Ghana, head of U.N. peacekeeping operations, or Sadako Ogata of Japan, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Another choice: South Africa's Richard Goldstone, who is stepping down as prosecutor...
...measure has mobilized a formidable lobbying coalition, uniting organized labor and big and small business, state and local governments and such esoteric trade associations as the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute. Their goal is not only passage but also a veto-proof 289 votes...
Although long overdue, the line-item veto is hardly a cure-all. The legislation is riddled with loopholes and will expire in eight years unless Congress extends it. Worse, the obvious pork in the budget amounts to no more than about $10 billion of all federal spending--less than 1% of the total. And getting a handle on the nation's true, long-term spending problems--the product of an aging population entitled to benefits for which there are increasingly insufficient funds--will have to wait for another day. The giant, budget-busting benefit programs, mainly Social Security and Medicare...