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LAST WEEK THE SENATE voted to override the President's veto--only the fifth such occurrence in Reagan's current term--and so voted into law economic sanctions against the Republic of South Africa. The image of a U.S. government sharply divided between the Administration and Congress may send a somewhat ambivalent diplomatic signal to other nations, but Congress's unambiguous stand, confirmed by the uncharacteristic veto override, is important for the message it sends to Black South Africans...
While Secretary of State George P. Shultz last week affirmed the "common objective which unites us," the Reagan Administration's persistent attempts to salvage business interests in that nation and to protect the regime in Pretoria from sanctions has belied any meaningful opposition to apartheid. The veto override finally makes clear that the United States is on the right side of the struggle in South Africa...
...recent tenure rejection of Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History Alan Brinkley and what one professor called President Derek C. Bok's "pocket veto" of former Associate Professor of English Robert N. Watson's tenure nomination reveal these major obstacles, professors said...
...reaction was immediate -- and strong. While some Republicans supported the President's action, most Democrats were outraged. Even before the White House announcement, Representative Mickey Leland of Texas, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, told a rally that Reagan had been waiting "like a thief in the night to veto legislation that clearly has the support of the American people." California Congressman Norman Mineta maintained that neither Congress nor the public would tolerate "this indecent act." Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts declared, "It is sad that the President persists in locking himself into a failed and lonely policy that...
...vote of 308 to 77, the final disposition of the measure may be settled at last. Attention will focus on the Senate, which passed the bill in August by a vote of 84 to 14. To reach the 34 votes necessary to prevent the Senate from overriding Reagan's veto, the White House needed to persuade 20 Senators to change their minds and support the President. At week's end congressional observers thought the President had the support of no more than 28 Senators total, half a dozen short of the number needed to keep the bill from becoming...