Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Startling Defeat. Again the President spoke in congressional shorthand: "Sustain the veto, and well come in 300 million over." Translation: if we can beat the Democrats' attempt to overturn my veto, I'll settle for a bill that is $300 million above what I originally wanted. In reply, the Republican leaders offered Ford their optimistic assurance that the veto would be sustained. "We're not going to have any trouble," said...
...turned out last week, Ford and the Republicans had a great deal of trouble. Not only was the President's veto overridden by a substantial margin-310 to 113-but 49 of the 144 Republican Congressmen voted with the Democrats. The startling defeat for Ford set the mood and the stage for what promises to be a congressional session full of tough, partisan politics and bitter confrontations with the White House. Hoping to help themselves-as well as their presidential candidate, whoever he may be-in the upcoming elections, the Democrats will be out to portray Ford...
That debate ended last week with a U.S. veto of a strongly pro-P.L.O. resolution. Although not a member of the Council, Syria played the key role in drafting the resolution, which would have required Israel to withdraw from all territories occupied during the 1967 war, and would have recognized the Palestinians' "right to establish an independent state in Palestine." As expected, Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan cast the U.S.'s 13th veto in the Council's 30-year history, because the resolution would have altered the deliberately vague language of Resolution 242 adopted in 1967, which...
...Syrian game is based on the assumption that in [1976] the U.S. is softer and the capabilities for them to blackmail the U.S. for political concessions are better. I hope that after the American veto in the Security Council this week they will reconsider this position...
...Ricans feel Vesco has become too important to the country's tiny economy to be kicked out. "To extradite him," sighs an opposition politician, "would mean the extradition of his money too." Indeed, in 1974, under Figueres, Costa Rica rewrote its extradition law to allow the government to veto an extradition demand before it ever reaches the courts. That new statute is popularly known as the "Vesco...