Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Declaration of War. Asahi's private power struggle became the talk of Japan, and the paper's indecisive editors, who had the courage to veto Mrs. Murayama's mandates but could not find a way to keep her quiet, lost considerable face. To recover some, five board directors, who had resigned in protest against her highhanded ways, changed their minds and went back to work. After that, Mrs. Murayama publicly declared war. She got her husband to bring suit against the five directors, on the ground that he had accepted their resignations and that their return...
...parents' snarlingly bad relationship and is eager to discover more. The revelations come steadily but not patly. The frustrations of wife and life have made John irascible, intolerant and bitter. Nettie is sad-eyed, stiff-bodied, and given to sulky silences. She has ruled the family by veto power; he, in turn, has mutilated his wife's heart with incessant drinking and the pursuit of "hotel-lobby whores." Trying to cast up a balance sheet of guilt, Timmy blames first one parent, then the other...
...Marshall made the historic offer in 1947 to extend massive U.S. aid to help rebuild the shattered economies of friend and foe alike, the prostrate Soviet-occupied states of Eastern Europe responded with enthusiasm. But before their delegations could pack their scuffed suitcases and head West, Moscow thundered its veto of Commu nist participation in the Marshall Plan. Last week, in Conference Room 1105A of the State Department, a Rumanian delegation was finally able to accept, if not the 17-year-old offer, at least a latterday, more commercial version...
...conviction that the multilateral force represents the only practical means of giving NATO nations partial control of nuclear weapons. As advocated by the U.S. since 1960, MLF would consist of 20 Polaris-armed surface ships manned by mixed allied crews. Though the U.S. would initially retain its veto power over the use of the missiles, the fleet would ultimately be controlled by some form of executive body representing the participating nations. So far, eight NATO members have joined in a working group to examine the MLF proposal, but only West Germany and Italy are demonstrably enthusiastic about it. Though France...
...chosen to administrate the new code. Hopeful that they can satisfy critics with the kind of strong "czar" professional football has, cigarette companies will give their man broad powers. He cannot have any connection with the industry or own its stocks. Once chosen, he will have absolute veto over all advertising. Penalties for disobeying his veto will range...