Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defended its actions in the United Nations Security Council, in the face of considerable general disapproval of the troop movements; then, after a Russian veto in the Council, proposed to go to the General Assembly, if necessary, to get the U.N. to take over the job of safeguarding Lebanon and Jordan...
...from Lutherans the world over, he was finally cleared, resumed his post. Last year Ordass got permission to attend an international Lutheran assembly in Minneapolis (TIME, Aug. 19), but after his return, he was slapped in the Red press for his "antiCommunist addresses," was replaced by Collaborationist Bishop Lajos Veto as Hungary's No. 1 Lutheran. The only post Ordass kept was that of head of Hungary's Southern Lutheran District. Last week Hungary's Kadar regime stripped him even of that position...
...Senate the long-awaited Administration bill to soften the McMahon Act's atomic secrecy provisions. Under the bill the Administration would have discretion to tell any NATO ally the latest facts of the size and destructiveness of nuclear weapons, could also pass along, subject to congressional veto, nonnuclear components of atomic weapons for arming by the U.S. in the event of war. Any ally that had made "substantial progress" in its own atomic weapons program (i.e., Britain), subject to the same veto, could receive actual weapons designs, nuclear materials...
...bill stipulated that 1) the Defense Secretary's authority must flow through the service secretaries-"legalized bottleneck," said the President; 2) Congress could, in effect, veto Pentagon decisions to transfer major combat functions of the services-''endorsement of duplication and standpattism," said Ike; and 3) each member of the Joint Chiefs and each service secretary had license to deal with Congress "on his own initiative" -"legalized insubordination" to the Commander-in-Chief...
Russia's Arkady Sobolev predictably declared that the only peril in Lebanon comes "from certain Western powers which are openly preparing armed inter vention there." But when the matter came to a vote, the Soviet Union, instead of imposing an expected veto, merely abstained as the Security Council voted 10 to 0 to investigate the charges that the U.A.R. was pouring men, guns and munitions into tiny Lebanon. Reportedly, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser had asked Russia to withhold its veto: he himself was not yet ready to involve his restless Syrian satellite in reckless adventures...