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...going to protect the Bosnian people againstthe Serb expansion," said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who waved published reports of continued Serb aggression. "And that is if they're allowed to defend themselves." More significant, Senate Republicans have secured the two-thirds needed to override a promised presidential veto if an identical measure passes the House, possibly by Thursday, by a similar margin. Whatever the outcome, TIME's Marguerite Michaels says, the drama is being played out for domestic consumption, and will do little to slow the Serbian drive. "Dole is running for President, and he doesn't want...
...seems misguided to some Republicans who have worked most closely with her in the Senate. John McCain, an Arizona Senator of impeccable conservative credentials who has endorsed Gramm for President, credits Dole's chief of staff with rescuing the Arizona Senator's hard-line proposal for a line-item veto from such formidable adversaries as Budget Committee chairman Pete Domenici. "One way of getting your point across to Bob Dole is getting your point across to Sheila, but that doesn't mean that she directs him. It means that he can rely on her," McCain says...
...heels of the capture of Srebrenica by the Bosnian Serb army, Time has learned, Carl Bildt, the peace negotiator for the European Union, presented Milosevic with a number of ideas that might make a deal more palatable all around, including a way to finesse a potential Russian veto of enforcement measures. Milosevic was described as being "receptive...
...three of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council rather than by unanimous decision; whether such a change in voting procedure is legal remains in question, but as a senior U.S. Administration official puts it, "It does reflect an effort to get around the problem of the veto...
President Clinton threatened to unleash a barrage of vetoes if Republicans insist on slashing key domestic programs and fail to take more seriously his gentler,10-year plan to balance the budget. "I will continue to act, alone if necessary," he declared at a speech to delegates of Boys Nation, a high school good-government program in which he once took part. "There are a lot of things being done here which will violate and undermine our chances to achieve common ground." The President suggested the GOP was leaving him little choice but to veto fiscal 1996 appropriations bills...