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...presidency more along the lines of the American or French model. The Soviet President's new portfolio is likely to include national security, foreign policy, the KGB and police and oversight of economic reforms. Georgi Arbatov, the country's best-known Americanologist, believes the new President should have veto powers, noting that "we should carefully study the American experience on this." For the present, the President would continue to be elected by the Congress of People's Deputies -- although the notion of direct popular election could be introduced into a new constitution...
...June 3-4. The Executive Board of the Harvard Republican Club gives its full support and admiration to the Chinese students' courageous fight for liberty, as does President Bush. However, we feel that the editorial cartoon published in the Feb. 1 issue of The Crimson which blasted Bush for vetoing a bill allowing Chinese students to remain in the U.S. after their visas expire, overlooked some key facts and was misleading to the uninformed reader. An examination of the facts shows that a Presidential veto was warranted and does not compromise the safety of Chinese students...
...into law, would have provoked a severe reaction from China's leaders, quite possibly endangering the families and friends of the very people congress was trying to protect. China did, in fact, react vehemently to the original passage of the bill and to the House's override of the veto. Unfortunately, the ultimate goal of both the Chinese students and President Bush--freedom for the people of China--requires a continuing dialogue with the Chinese government. Bush's carefully thought-out program does not shut off China from U.S. contacts, necessary for change in China's domestic policy...
...these reasons are true, would the bill draw such widespread support in Congress? Republicans and Democrats in both houses stood to gain politically by supporting the bill, for it is impossible to criticize their intentions. Democrats, especially, could get political mileage by equating a veto of the bill with a callous, cold-hearted President. But the legislation would have had serious consequences for our relationship with China, which over the past 20 years has been mutually beneficial, both economically and socially. As a State Department official said last July 13, "legislation such as this, which severely limits the President...
Many Germans were also outraged to learn that the U.S. military is free to tap German telephone lines without court orders or even the knowledge of the Bonn government. The Allies retain the right to impose death sentences, control inter-German airspace and veto West German decisions concerning Berlin. The rights are resented even if they go unused, as has been the case with death sentences, and more so when used, as happened in 1988 when a U.S. eavesdropping operation exposed the fact that a West German firm was helping build a poison-gas plant in Libya...