Word: veto
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...faculty and staff members to seat representatives on a panel to advise the 9-member search committee, as other universities have done. This panel should meet regularly with the committee, have access to the lists of candidates and interview all candidates on the "short list." And it should have veto power over the final choice...
...page document. The Civil Rights Act of 1990 -- passed last week by overwhelming majorities in both houses of Congress -- seeks to strengthen protections against discrimination in the workplace, making it easier for minorities and women to prove civil rights violations against employers. But Bush is threatening to veto...
...stalemate between the President and Congress worries many Republicans who do not want the G.O.P. to be perceived as anti-civil rights. Former Transportation Secretary William Coleman, a prominent black Republican involved in intensive negotiations to salvage the measure, warned the President last week that a veto would subject the "country and the Republican Party to years of divisiveness." Apparently in order to avoid just such a possibility -- and in the face of demonstrations in front of the White House -- the President last Saturday sent Congress proposals for an 11th-hour compromise...
...bitterly to the final wording of the resolution, but for the moment the compromise had spared the alliance against Saddam from a major rift. Even Washington's Western allies on the Council were prepared to accept Yemen's original draft and were concerned by the prospect of an American veto. As the Arab states saw it, the issue was whether there was one international law for Arab governments and another for non-Arabs. "This time the world community must prove that principles (such as those used to justify collective action against the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) are indivisible," editorialized...
Another sobering fact is that international support is not solid. Beginning with the Helsinki summit, the Soviets have indicated that they will support only a U.N. military action (which is subject to a Chinese veto). Also, they continue to connect Iraq-Kuwait and Israel-Palestinian issues...