Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although there was some feeling that the motion should be voted down "because she Council would veto it anyway," Ann Swidler '66 pointed out that this "would not provide a solution. We don't want it co appear as if the legislature is simply opposed to increasing parietal hours," she said "especially when our decision has already been made...
...framers of the U.N. Charter imagined that the peace would be maintained by the Big Powers-the U.S., Russia, France, Britain, Nationalist China. They were expected to supply armed forces as requested by the Security Council, where each had a veto. Command of the combined forces would be channeled through a military staff committee, composed of officers from the Big Five. But as Russian vetoes followed one another in the Council like wolves across the steppe, it became quickly plain that this method of peace-keeping would not work. In fact, the military staff committee still exists...
...principal policeman. Realizing that the Russians would not make such a mistake again, the U.S. and six allies in the General Assembly pushed through the "Uniting for Peace" resolution, which assumed for the Assembly the right to use "armed force when necessary" in case the Security Council was veto-bound...
...abolition ("Thou shalt not kill") lost by only one vote in the state legislature. Hurrying to Death Row, Clement immediately commuted the sentences of five condemned Negroes to 99 years. Abolition lost in Indiana this month only because the last-minute murder of three policemen persuaded the Governor to veto it. Last week it was being discussed by the legislatures in Illinois, Vermont and New York, where an influential bipartisan commission called execution "an act of supreme violence" and argued that New York can punish murder "without resort to barbarism of this kind...
...Council has the power to veto RGA legislation, but has never used it. Miss Ronhovde read a letter from Mrs. Helen H. Gilbert, acting president of Radcliffe, to the RGA legislature. It stated that a majority of the Council thinks "a change in the number of parietal hours would be contrary to the best interests of Radcliffe. The letter went on to say that the Council will take "formal action" on the issue at its next meeting Monday...