Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after four years of bloody guerrilla war between Greek Cypriot guerrillas and British troops. The constitution was a complicated document, carefully drawn to safeguard the rights of the tiny nation's 100,000 Turkish Cypriots as well as the 500,000 Greek Cypriot majority. The Turkish community got veto power over the most important legislation and was promised 30% of all government appointments. To enforce the constitution, Greece was allowed to send 850 troops to Cyprus, and Turkey 650. Britain, also a guarantor of the constitution, kept some 10,000 troops at two bases on the island...
...some time, and its settlement means that the Market can now proceed on two legs-industrial and agricultural-rather than the one on which it has been hopping. In fact, so unrestrained was enthusiasm over the settlement that the bitterness and mistrust caused by De Gaulle's brutal veto of British membership last Jan. 14 seemed finally to be dissipating...
...anti-Soviet attacks. Yet more than half of the U.N. speeches in this volume are little more than anti-Soviet propaganda. In these speeches, of course, Stevenson does not abandon his over-all philosophy. But in responding to an anti-imperialist circular, or commenting on the 100th Soviet veto, or discussing the positioning of Soviet missiles in Cuba, he can't afford to remind the world that no one has a monopoly on morality. The U.N. speeches, then, abetted by spicy slaps at the Soviets in the editor's brief introductions, portray a world of democrats and autocrats, of judges...
...Liberty. The war between Capitol Hill and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue came to a climax with F.D.R.'s veto, over the desperate pleas of Democratic Senate Leader Alben W. Barkley, of a 1944 tax bill. Barkley's one-vote election as majority leader over Mississippi's Pat Harrison had come only with the all-out help of the Administration, and he had felt obligated ever since. But this was too much. Barkley resigned from his leadership post in a highly emotional Senate moment. Senate Democrats promptly caucused and unanimously re-elected Barkley-now, they thought, a free...
...Frenchman is given his choice of his own nuclear force or a nuclear force subject to U.S. veto, as was the Skybolt program, which must he choose?" Hoffmann asked...