Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Polaris submarines, answering to NATO control; the other sets up a fleet of missile-carrying merchant ships manned by crews from different nations. Rockefeller was impressed by neither: "One is a collection of national forces subject to ultimate national control; the other is effectively under U.S. control through the veto...
...enemies of the bill claim that it will impair Congressional jurisdiction over public lands. The opposite is true. Since all the areas to comprise the Wilderness System have been closed to commercial exploitation by Executive decrees, Congress exercises no direct control. Under the current measure, Congress would gain a veto over each separate area the President proposes for inclusion in the Wilderness System. The opponents actual, but unstated, objection is that this procedure bypasses the Interior Committee. They know that the votes for a floor veto would be hard for them to muster...
British Foreign Secretary Lord Home and French Foreign Minister Couve de Murville met for the first time since Paris-London relations were strained severely last January by France's veto of the British bid for membership in the European Common Market. The atmosphere of their 25-minute meeting was cool, but the fact of meeting itself was considered significant...
...need not fear that racing would lure prostitutes, since "we already got plenty of prostitutes to meet the demands." A subcommittee of the Iowa legislature has favorably reported a racing bill. In Idaho, where at least five previous legislatures passed a pari-mutuel law only to see Governors veto it, the present legislature recently overrode Governor Robert Smylie's veto. But Smylie contends that the law violates the state constitution, so far has refused to appoint a racing commission to get things going. Some states are eying the potentially huge take of another gambling gimmick: the lottery. Among them...
...time pool their own strike forces, if and when they acquired nuclear weapons. To placate its other European allies, the Kennedy Administration also proposed a "multilateral" force of Polaris submarines, which would be multimanned-and multifmanced-by the U.S. and its partners, each of whom would have a veto over the use of the missiles...