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Stith also attacked President Bush for his threats this summer to veto the Civil Rights Bill of 1990 and for drawing on latent racist tendencies in his campaign for the presidency...
...more than 100,000 people in this country die each year from dry sulfate air poisoning alone. President Bush introduced a new clean air bill last year to combat this problem; during the campaign he spoke of individuals' "right" to breathe clean air. But now Bush is threatening to veto this very bill, the first of its kind since 1977, because Congressional Democrats had the nerve to attach real enforcement mechanisms to Bush's platitudes...
...lakes in North America are threatened. President Bush stated in a campaign speech that "the time for action on clean air and acid rain is now." The Clean Air Act of 1990 would do something about this problem (the 1977 act did not), but the President says he may veto...
...Saturday Bush vetoed the resolution, calculating that the outcry from outraged citizens denied access to Social Security offices, national monuments and federal services would stampede Congress into quickly adopting a budget resolution along the lines of the defeated pact. After an attempt to override the veto failed, negotiations between Congress and the White House resumed. To break the impasse, it appeared for a time that the factions might agree to a trade: Democrats would go along with a cut in the capital-gains tax favored by the President; Republicans would accept the hike in income taxes on the wealthy that...
...heat on Saddam and might spur him either to withdraw from Kuwait or to launch a pre-emptive strike that would justify an allied counterattack. But dovish allies want other options pursued first. In addition, the U.S. and its allies would need ironclad assurances that China would not veto the resolution in the Security Council, and they have yet to begin seriously exploring conditions for Beijing's approval. The U.S. is counting on other U.N. resolutions to help cement the coalition and build momentum against Iraq and is likely with its allies to propose several of them: to condemn Iraq...