Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Ford's veto last Friday of a proposed $7.9 billion aid to education bill could cause a delay of a increase in federal and to schools and universities, thus possibly hurting Harvard's financial and programs...
...spokesman for the American Council of Education said yesterday, that an override of Ford's veto would mean an additional $430 million for colleges and universities throughout the country...
...spokesman for the National Education Association said yesterday the association is "confident that the veto will be overridden" and that "if Congress fails to override the veto in September, the President and Congress will draw up a compromise bill...
Another anti-Israeli resolution will surface-and will probably be approved-at a meeting of nonaligned nations next month in Lima, Peru. Actually, it seems unlikely that Israel could be thrown out of the U.N. entirely, since the U.S. is committed to cast a Security Council veto to prevent that from happening. But Israel could be suspended from the General Assembly as South Africa was last year...
Many Democrats prefer a $7.50 price ceiling on all U.S. oil, both new and presently controlled, but they almost surely cannot pass such a bill over an inevitable presidential veto. That leaves the possibility of a straight extension of price controls-perhaps for six months-but Administration aides warn that Ford might veto that too, because he believes controls only discourage domestic output and keep the U.S. dependent on OPEC...