The Michigan Daily-Friday, September 8, 1978-Page 7A
CARTER SCORES STRONG VICTORY:
House upholds carrier veto
WASHINGTON (AP) - President
Carter won a surprisingly strong victory
in his first veto confrontation with
Congress as the House yesterday
upheld his rejection of the Defense
Authorization Act and its $2 billion
nuclear aircraft carrier.
Despite an intensive bipartisan cam-
paign mounted by the armed services
committees in both House and Senate to
override the Aug. 17 veto, Carter was
sustained with power to spare.
THE VOTE to override failed 191-206,
or 74 votes short of the necessary two-
thirds. Leaders on both sides of the
issue had predicted a much closer out-
come.
The overall $317 billion measure
vetoed by the President was sent back
to committee, where the carrier,
decried by Carter as wasteful, will be
deleted and other projects may be ad-
ded at his behest.'
In a statement issued at the White
House while he was at Camp David for
the Middle East summit, Carter said he
was very pleased'with the outcome and
eager to work "closely and
cooperatively with the Congress in
enacting a new bill which will provide
the strongest possible national defen-
se."
AATA
won't lose
st ate funds
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we'll simply reactivate the project," he
said.
The Dial-A-Ride controversy has
been evolving since the April election of
Mayer Louis Belcher and his appoin-
tment of three board members whose
philosophies on Dial-A-Ride differed
with then AATA Executive Director
and Dial-A-Ride architect Karl Guen-
ther. Guenther resigned under fire over
a dispute with the board concerning its
intentions to curtail Dial-A-Ride in or-
der to expand line bus service.
Questions about those intentions have
generated community concern and con-
tinuous friction between Guenther and
the board. Board members assert that
they are merely exploring potential
transportation alternatives and adop-
ted a resolution to that effect Wed-
nesday night.
Guenther lauded the resolution but
added that board members had ordered
AATA staff to consider revisions in
Dial-A-Ride service last June.
THOUGH HE had vetoed four other
bills earlier in his presidency, none
drew an attempt to override. But his
decision on the authorization bill, the
first veto of a major defense measure in
modern history, angered Sen. John
Stennis (D-Miss.), and Rep. Melvin
Price (D-Ill.), the armed services
chairmen, and drew charges that the
chief executive was usurping their con-
stitutional duty.
A disappointed Stennis moved im-
mediately after the House vote to re-
introduce the same bill, minus the
carrier. "A new start must be made
and time is of the essence," he said.
However, Carter hopes that rather
than simply cutting out the carrier, the
Congress will add several new
programs, including $200 million for
research and development. Most of his
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Professional Theatre Program
proposals would bolster the Army and
Air Force.
PROPONENTS of an override had
optimistically pointed to the fact that
the House originally passed the bill 319-
67 and the Senate did so by an 87-2
margin. But those numbers could not
hold up in the face of the majority
leadership's campaign on the
President's behalf.
The $2 billion carrier was charted as
the Navy's fifth, and would have
replaced the old Midway in about eight
years.
Carter says he will ask for a conven-
tional carrier in his fiscal 1980 budget,
at a savings of about $1 billion. Those
who favor the nuclear model insist that
the conventional ship probably would
cost far more, at perhaps no saving at
all.
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Australian meat lobby
asks Nixon Qo speak
in the Power Center
SALLYANN HOWES
EARL LOIS
WRIGHTSON & HUNT
Of MUSIC
also Sarnnq TERRY SAUNDERS
October 6-8
HERMIONE GINGOLD IN
November 3-5
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - The
Australian Cattlemen's Union, ignoring
a heated controversy over Richard
Nixon's stated intention to visit
Australia, has invited the former
American President to speak at its an-
nual convention later this month.
Leaders of the group - one of
Australia's most powerful lobbies -
believe Nixon can tell them how to fight
proposed legislation in Congress that
would limit Australian beef exports.
"MR. NIXON knows where the
bodies are buried," said Ian Park,
executive director of the cattlemen's
union. "His knowledge and ap-
preciation of the U.S. lobbying scene
could be invaluable."
Australia's conservative government
last week turned down Nixon's request
to make an official visit to meet with
Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. It
said such.a visit would be "inoppor-
tune" because of other official visits
during September and October.
But Nixon said through an aide he
plans to come here anyway - and the
'speaking invitation from the cat-
tlemen's group was his first.
BARRY CASSELL, national director
of the cattlemen's group, yesterday
said the union sent the former
American president a telegram Wed-
nesday officially inviting him to be the
guest speaker Sept. 23 during its annual.
convention. Nixon has not said whether
he will accept the invitation.
Park said the proposed "Meat Import
Act 1978" could reduce Australian beef
exports to the United States by up to 20
per cent over the next decade after an
initial but temporary increase in the
first three years. The proposed bill has
been approved by a House Ways and
Means subcommittee and currently is
the subject of intensive. lobbying in
Washington, Park said.
Cassell said the United States is the
biggest export market for Australian
beef but that the U.S. market is highly
susceptible to pressure from American
cattlemen.
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