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Supreme Court to review pocket veto ruling
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court Mon
day agreed to referee a major confrontation between
President Reagan and Congress over the use of the so
called pocket veto.
The court said it will review a ruling that Reagan il
legally used a pocket veto in 1983 to kill a bill linking
military aid to El Salvador with human rights progress
by that country.
The court’s action sets the stage for a decision, pro
bably sometime in 1987. on far-reaching questions of
presidential and congressional powers.
On Aug. 29, 1984. the U.S. Circuit Court of Ap
peals here ruled, by a 2-1 vote and in a one-page opi
nion, that Reagan's use of the pocket veto was illegal.
But the bill conditioning aid to El Salvador on
human rights progress expired a month later anyway,
and it was not until April 12, 1985, that the appeals
court issued a 46-page opinion in the case.
In the appeal acted on Monday. Justice Department
lawyers said the appeals court should have thrown out
its own opinion last year because the case had become
moot.
The challenge to Reagan’s use of the pocket veto
was made by 33 House Democrats ted by Rep. Michael
Barnes of Maryland, leaders of both parties in Congress
joined in asking the Supreme Court to allow the appeals
court ruling to remain intact.
The case poses not only the issue of the pocket veto
but also whether individual members of Congress have
legal standing to sue in federal court to challenge ac
tions by the president.
A similar issue involving legal standing, with
potential far-reaching impact, also has arisen in a pen
ding constitutional challenge to the Cramm-Rudman
Act mandating a balanced federal budget by Hht l.
In the pocket veto case, the appeals court barred
the president from using the device to kill a hill while
Congress is in recess. The ruling allowed the president
to pocket veto a measure only at the conclusion of a
two-veer congressional term when all I louse seats and a
third of the Senate seats are up i»». election.
A president pocket vetoes a hill by taking no action
on the measure, figuratively keeping it “in his pocket”
rather than sending it Iwick to Congress with a veto
message or signing it into law .
In the case of the Kl Salvador measure. Congress
had recessed for t*t«:t when Keegan sought to nullity
the measure on Nov, :tt) that year. The hill would have
required him to certify that the Salvadoran government
had improved human rights before more U.S. aid could ' "
lie sent to the country in the fiscal year ending Sept it).
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The .appeals court ruling had do olipct on the aid .
Iiocause the money already had been spent. . 7 •
South African police kill seven blacks
JOHANNESBURG. South
Africa JAP) — Police stopped a
van Monday that they said was
carrying seven black guerrillas
and killed all seven In the
resulting shootout in (vuguletu.
township near Cape Town.
Official reports said the men
were sent by the mitlawed
African National Congress to at
tack policemen.
l-'our.bodies lay in the street
and three more in the surroun
ding bush. where-they were
shot by pursuing police..
The official - reports said
police lav in wail for mom than
four hours after lining informed
that the.ANC was planning an
attack. ‘
They stopped the van near the
township police station soon
. after 7 a.m.. the blacks started
shooting and threw a grenade,
and the police returned fire,
said a statement by (Jan.' |ohan
Coetzee, the police
commissioner.
Seven "ANC terrorists" were
killed, and one policeman was
slightly wounded. (!6el/.et?’s
' statement said.
Guguletu is on the southeast
outskirts of the country’s
legislative capital. It has seen
some of- the fiercest black
•rioting in the 18 months of.
violence against apartheid, the
official race policy through.
. which South Africa's 5.million
whites maintain supremacy
over the 24 million blacks.
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U.S. Army engineers to
build airstrip in Honduras
. MOCORON. Honduran (AP) — AbclyJ 100 IK-S. Army ;
engineers parachuted into Honduras Monday with bulldozers-;
and equipment io build an airstrip 15"miles from Nicaragua’ ■’
The U.S. ambassador said NicaraguaV Marxist government.;, ’
should “take note’'.of the project. ‘ . \ ■ • •
About 3(H) additional U^S. Army engineers will, arrive. *, : ,
later,to Join Hohduran soldiers in-building a 4,70()-fuutgravei
runway capable of handling heavy .transpoH aircraft- ••
When the airatrip is finished; it wilTbe.the.base for evier
cises in May and |une;involving sortit* 1 .80J)U:S„ airborne
. and Special Forces troopers. '■ .
U.S/ Ambassador John Kerch and- Honduran" President
.Jose.Azcona Hoyo sat' in metal chairs beside a iliH .rtv.ad.wat
ching the paratroopers, bulldmrers and'.equipment-drift to
eaHh after a threerhou'r flight fnvm i't; ;Hr'agg;.N;,('..°*•
.Kerch Said Nicaragua’s Sandinista rulers HljduUl n'ali/^'.
. that the United States is able to.sOnd troops .ami heavy equip'
ment into Honduras within hours-*-*if-1he-need,arfab$.-?V-?‘
’ ’Tactically ,1 think it demonstrates to the Sandihfstas (or
at least they should take note of it , we aril quite Capable of
coming to the aid of Honduras, if need be. in remote areas,*■’•. '
he said.- . •* y ‘".V'-T- ’ ’ '■ V
"We don't have to rely upon sea-borne transportation
Wecan bring heavy'equipment in right.yvhere it’s heeded ’’
The paratrojipers <if the 27th Airborne Hngineiering-Bat
talion arrived shortly after daviri attlie airstrip site. .4^ mi his
noHli of.the.Nicafaguah border; It,is.seven miles southeast of
the village of-Mocorbn and i|bout- 2(H) miles east northeast of
the Hondiiran capital of Tegucigalpa.'
From nvid-May through June, the US.airlvorne and
Special 'Forces units wiil conduct maneuvers wiihin seven
• miles of the Nicaraguah border, said Alaska Air Guard May
(Jarl Gid lurid He is.the public affairs officer for. the 1.1(H)
U.S. military*perSonne| in Honduras, with most stationed at
the Falnienjla Air Base , ,-y • / \
There'hayti beeh sporadic borderxlashes involvingHon
duran and Nicaraguan troops and U.S.-backed Nicaraguan
rebels who have camps along'the border. - • ' ;
,°U-,S officials said tlie airstripwas not intended for use by
the rebels', who have used-another airstrip improved by U.S.
forces to resupply their fighters inside Nicaragua.
. Aaxona Hoyo said the new airstrip would haye .both
cjvilian and military uses .but the main purpose would be to
supply Honduran troops -.
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