Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...principal failure of the U.N. Charter was noted by the late Republican Senator Robert Taft ten years ago: "The fundamental difficulty is that [the U.N. Charter] is not based primarily on an underlying law and an administration of justice under that law." Moreover, with the threat of Security Council veto creating a stalemate of power, decisive action must come from a General Assembly where orderly decision is all but impossible...
...decided on a drive to install quickly some respected U.N. figure-probably an African or Asian-as a temporary administrator. Stevenson knew that it was useless to press for a permanent new Secretary-General, who is formally appointed by the Assembly but who must first get clearance in the veto-bound Security Council. There the Russians would inevitably climb into their troika-their insistent demand that the office of Secretary-General be replaced by a three-man, veto-bound U.N. executive, representing East, West and the neutrals. To make the point, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko already was repeating...
...when Goulart's supply of sweet reason runs low, he can resort to the still powerful leverage left him by the constitutional amendment. He can veto bills passed by any majority less than 60% in Congress, and he can influence Congress itself through the members of his own Labor Party, which holds 70 of the 342 seats. Those 70 votes, added to the 116 of Neves' Social Democratic Party, give the new Prime Minister a bare majority. But if Goulart swings off into leftfield, his precarious majority may well vanish...
...concessions as "unrealistic, impractical, and not conducive to agreement." Then he announced that Russia would no longer agree to a single neutral administrator to supervise inspections, demanded instead the now famous "troika"-or three-man-control over all aspects of a test ban. This would give the Communists a veto any time the Western member at a lonely inspection post deep in Russia decided a suspicious cloud of dust or a distant rumble needed checking out as a possible illicit nuclear explosion...
...through the window at the round modern dome at the end of the Congress Building. "If I could tear that down, Brazil would be better governed," he said. Three weeks ago he told an aide that he had a good mind to resign when Congress, after allowing 19 Quadros vetoes to stand, overruled Veto No. 20. "He was furious," says the aide...