Word: vetoing
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...Scranton was not really outlining new policy, merely stating the established U.S. position more bluntly. But when the vote came after four days of argument and 14 other members endorsed the Arab resolution, which called for "speedy termination" of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Scranton cast a veto, explaining that the resolution would interfere with U.S. peace negotiations. In effect, the State Department was worried that if the resolution carried, the Israel bloc in Congress might retaliate by stopping the proposed sale of six C-130 planes to Egypt...
...Scranton irked the Arabs by blocking a resolution that had been laboriously watered down precisely to avoid a U.S. veto. Israel was infuriated by a well-intentioned aside uttered by Scranton just before beginning his opening speech in the Security Council debate. The new ambassador looked around the chamber and invited "any of you and preferably all of you" to consult informally with him about the situation in the Middle East. Perhaps oversensitively, the Israeli government decided that Scranton's remark implied formal U.S. acceptance of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and it ordered Ambassador Simcha Dinitz to protest...
...court order. American citizens can be tapped only if they are "engaged in clandestine intelligence activities, sabotage, terrorist activities," are doing so under the "direction of a foreign power," and a federal judge issues a warrant. Ford has agreed to back it. At least, it beats showy confrontation, veto and stalemate. What with a bipartisan resolution attempting to take détente out of politics (see page 31), it just might be that the U.S. is rediscovering the art of compromise...
...presenting the office of the presidency as devoid of ideological content, Carter is of course perpetrating the biggest lie of all. The powers traditionally associated with the presidency--the power to push or to veto legislation, the administration of defense and social welfare appropriations, the setting of domestic and foreign policy priorities--all have direct political consequences. It requires an astonishing naivete to believe differently...
Those arguments did not impress the House, which last week easily overrode Ford's veto, 319 to 98. The Senate's 63-to-35 margin to override, however, fell short of the needed two-thirds...