Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opposed the military's rule in South Viet Nam all along; he has helped lead the assembly's so far unsuccessful fight to persuade the Ky government to abrogate Article 20 of the Election Decree that created the assembly. Article 20 stipulates that the generals may veto any assembly proposal that commands the support of less than two-thirds of the Deputies...
Ironically, Dan was en route to hear the government's reply to the assembly's latest protest against Article 20 when his car was demolished. Chief of State Thieu delivered the answer anyway: the generals would keep their veto. To do otherwise, he said, would "betray the confidence of the voters," who had elected the assembly with the understanding that the present government would keep an avuncular watch over all decisions. Urged on by a letter from Dan sent from his convalescent bed, the assembly vowed to continue to press its case against the government...
...know nothing about the dispute except what we read in the papers," said Monsignor Fausto Vallaine, speaking for the Vatican. At week's end, though, there were rumors that a papal emissary was already in Warsaw to talk about the seminaries. But remembering Gomulka's rude veto of a papal visit during the millennium, few observers thought that the state was about to modify its stand. And no one expected that the rugged old cardinal would change his mind...
Britain probably can count on enough votes to limit Security Council action, and can always resort to the veto to block total sanctions. But a veto would only put London in serious trouble with its own former African colonies, many of whom have been threatening for months to abandon the Commonwealth over Rhodesia. Even limited sanctions would pose a crisis for the U.N. If they are imposed, South Africa might be forced to resign from the world body...
...governor, during eight years in office, has been involved in a string of sour incidents. His political record is marred by two scandals with the State Liquor Authority, one in 1962-63 and the other which just broke last week; his divorce and remarriage; his crumpled presidential dreams; his veto of the $1.50 minimum wage bill last year; his absurd fall-out shelter campaign; and, of course, his broken promise not to raise taxes...