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Last week the verbal posturing gave way to desperate, eleventh-hour arm- twisting and compromises, as House Democratic leaders scrambled to find the votes they need to override a possible presidential veto. It was a spectacle the Republicans enjoyed. "The Democrats are not going to get the votes they need, and that will finish off civil rights for this year," crowed G.O.P. whip Newt Gingrich. Privately, civil rights lobbyists acknowledged that Gingrich was right...
...against Brady. Both Senate majority leader George Mitchell of Maine and Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas, oppose the Brady bill, partly because they hail from rural states. Lifetime N.R.A. member President Bush does not support the gun-control plan either, but has vaguely suggested that he would not veto it if it were incorporated into his omnibus anticrime package...
...Wilson ran for California's then vacant Senate seat and beat ex- Governor Jerry Brown. Wilson was a true-blue Reaganite in backing the Strategic Defense Initiative and Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court. But he also voted to override the President's veto of civil rights legislation...
...deployment of U.N. troops, however, would require Security Council approval, which the Soviets and Chinese, wary of expanding the limits of U.N. intervention, would probably veto. So late last month British Prime Minister John Major proposed a compromise: instead of dispatching soldiers, the U.N. would send in police to guard the Kurds. As with U.N. troops, they would be drawn from member countries. The U.S. supports the idea, as does the European Community...
...joining the U.N. Israel also refuses to talk with any Palestinians connected with the P.L.O. or who live in East Jerusalem, which Israel insists is not part of the occupied West Bank. But the Palestinians with whom the U.S. has been meeting do not want Israel to hold veto power over their delegation...