Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wilson said that he disagreed with plans that would give local residents veto power over University construction projects. "That is an unacceptable statement of the proper distribution of power...
Although Okinawa has its own chief executive, he is subordinate to the American High Commissioner, who currently is Lieut. General James B. Lampert. The "Hicom," as local slang dubs him, has full veto power over all island legislation, can intervene in civil and criminal legal matters at will and even remove any public official from office...
...legislative veto has not been invoked directly: Okinawan lawmakers simply do not introduce bills that they feel may be killed. But several officials have been removed in the past, and when Naha in 1956 elected a Communist mayor, the then-High Commissioner forced him out of office...
...verge of "hidden nationalization." The two biggest government industrial enterprises-ENI and I.R.I.-recently acquired a near-controlling interest in Montedison, a diversified manufacturer of chemicals and other basic products (TIME, Oct. 18). Now they were proposing a rule change that would give government forces virtual veto power in the Montedison board. Enraged, more than 2,000 small stockholders turned up at the meeting, the largest such group ever to so gather in Italy...
...expansion demands, O'Connell said, "Do not think that Calkin's statement to the Corporation is any response at all. The Wilson Report itself is not an adequate response--it doesn't do anything, it just talks. The people of the city must have full participation and veto power over their own lives...