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The Senate has voted to override President Reagan's veto of sanctions against South Africa by a decisive seventy-eight to twenty-one.
參議院投票，以決定性的七十八票比二十一票，推翻了里根總統對南非制裁的否決權。
As the House has already voted to override, the sanctions now become law.
由于眾議院已經投票否決，制裁現已成為法律。
NPR's Linda Wertheimer reports.
NPR記者琳達·韋特海默報道。
"American civil rights leaders, including Mrs. Caretta Scott King,
“包括科麗塔·斯科特·金夫人在內的美國民權領袖，
watched the senate debate from the Senate family gallery as members argued
在參議院會議廳，觀看了參議院的這場辯論。
not so much about sanctions and the efficacy of sanctions,
參議員們并沒有就制裁和制裁效果大加辯論，
more about the choice between affirming the bill already passed by Congress or supporting the President."
而是努力在支持國會通過的法案還是支持總統兩者之間做出選擇。”
American food aid to southern African countries could be cut off if South Africa carries out its threat to ban imports of US grain.
此前南非曾威脅要停止進口美國糧食，一旦付諸實施，美國對南部非洲國家的糧食援助可能就此被切斷。
Foreign Minister Pic Botha said if US sanctions were imposed,
外交部長皮克·博塔說，如果美國實施制裁，
his government would stop imports and would not allow its transport service to carry US grain to neighboring countries.
他的政府將停止進口，同時不允許其交通工具將美國糧食運往鄰國。
The White House today denied that it planted misleading stories in the American news media
白宮今天否認它在美國新聞媒體上炮制誤導性傳聞，
as part of a plan to topple Libyan leader Muammar Quddafi.
并以此作為推翻利比亞領導人穆阿邁爾·卡扎菲計劃的一部分。
The Washington Post reported this morning that stories were leaked this summer
華盛頓郵報今天上午報道說，今年夏天傳聞遭到泄露，
alleging Quddafi was resuming his support for terrorist activities,
稱卡扎菲正在恢復他的勢力，圖謀進行恐怖活動。
even though National Security adviser John Poindexter knew otherwise.
盡管國家安全顧問約翰·波因德克斯特知道事實并非如此。
Today, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said Poindexter denied the administration had involved the media in an anti-Qudafi campaign,
今天，白宮發言人拉里·斯皮克斯稱，波因德克斯特否認政府與媒體共同參與了反對卡扎菲的運動，
but Speakes left open the possibility a disinformation campaign was conducted in other countries.
但斯皮克斯并未否定在其他國家展開政府運動的可能性。
