Word: vetoed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first before the press since Great Britain had formally applied for entry into the Common Market, and the tensions and expectations were high. France's five partners in the Common Market wanted Britain in, and the British were optimistic that De Gaulle would not repeat his 1963 veto. Foreign Secretary George Brown told Parliament two weeks ago: "We expect to get in." Gaullists had even been circulating the word that De Gaulle would not impose another veto...
...vote of Common Market members is less certain. De Gaulle is still opposed but because of declining popularity at home, would like to avoid using his veto again if he can. Even so, approval of Britain's entry is rated no more than a 50-50 chance. No one recognizes this more than Wilson. "If we do not succeed-through the decisions of others, not of ourselves-we shall not whine about it," he said. "We ask no favors. Our negotiations will be based on what we can contribute...
Since the legislature adjourned immediately after the vote, Governor Love could have buried the bill by a pocket veto. After weighing thousands of pro and con letters, Love declared that the bill tightened as well as liberalized the law, by limiting abortions to licensed, accredited hospitals and requiring approval by a medical panel. As for widely voiced fears that Colorado might become an "abortion mecca," Love was confident that physicians and hospitals would not risk their reputations and accreditations by lightly approving abortions for transients...
Though both Democratic and Republican assembly leaders have strongly urged the withholding system, Reagan insists that he would approve the plan only if "they held a hot iron to my feet, and I was bound hand and foot." Faced with an almost certain veto, proponents are beginning to back down. "I don't intend to force it down his throat," says Democratic Speaker Jesse Unruh, who is puzzled nonetheless by Reagan's opposition to a system that most politicians regard as means of sugar-coating higher taxes. Warns Unruh: "I think the Governor may find, when he doubles...
...whether any hope could be found in the Kremlin for German reunification. There was none, except in the form of "some very unchaste offers" from Khrushchev. Even though European unity was set back by the ascendancy of Charles de Gaulle, and specifically by De Gaulle's veto of British Common Market membership on Jan. 14, 1963, Adenauer a scant week later concluded a perpetual Treaty of Friendship with France, to much dismay in the West...