Word: veto
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...liberals by assuring them that they are "welcome" in the G.O.P.−and that he will not repeat his 1970 purge of such anti-Administration Republicans as New York's Senator Charles Goodell. Already he is beginning to do a bit better with Congress: the Senate sustained his veto of a bill limiting television campaign spending, and last week a House-Senate conference restored most of the SST development funds that the Senate had earlier...
...before the cease-fire expires in February. The talks will be based on a 1967 Security Council resolution that calls for both a return of territory captured in the Six-Day War as well as the establishment of secure borders. What Dayan wanted was U.S. reassurance that it would veto any Russian attempt to introduce a new resolution stressing only territories. Washington was noncommittal, but did indicate that it is ready to fill an Israeli shopping list that runs to $500 million in military aid over the next two years. The list is so detailed that Laird, only half kidding...
...author seemed calm at the prospect, readers who consider the novel a masterpiece could only be horrified at what Broadway might do to Lolita. At any rate, this time Nabokov decided not to be a party to the adaptation himself. He waived script approval, though he did retain veto power over the choice of the adapter and composer. As it happened, Librettist Alan Jay Lerner (My Fair Lady, Coco) was at that very moment inquiring about Lolita. Nabokov, who had never seen a Lerner musical, listened to some of the original-cast albums, met him, and was satisfied. "Mr. Lerner...
...Noting that students comprise only four per cent of the national population, Nixon's letter added that "no minority, no matter how united, how vocal, or how articulate, has veto power over a President's decision to do what he believes is right in the nation's interest...
...legal aid on the Navajo Indian reservation in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Rumsfeld's critics are still worried. The Navajo grant was accompanied by a ruling that shifts control of the local board away from representatives of the local poor. And in California, Governor Reagan can veto the CRLA money. If he does so, the telltale crunch may come when Rumsfeld decides whether or not to override the veto...