Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason was that he did not want to imply that he had waived free access by any route. Wrote Clay later in his book, Decision in Germany: "I must admit that we did not then fully realize that the requirement of unanimous consent would enable a Soviet veto in the Allied Control Council to block all of our future efforts ... I think now that I was mistaken in not at this time making free access to Berlin a condition to our withdrawal into 'our occupation zone...
...They also favor a deal to admit Outer Mongolia to the U.N. in exchange for a Soviet agreement to admit Mauritania, on Morocco's southern border. This. they argue, would win gratitude for the U.S. among the new African nations. Chen warned the President that Nationalist China might veto the admission of Outer Mongolia...
Returning last year, Selz hoped the officialdom would surrender the veto, but was disappointed. Then he got a bright idea. Selz simply asked two galleries in France and five in the U.S. to import the works he wanted. "As simple as importing Polish hams," he said. The rest of the display he gathered from a variety of shrewd U.S. collectors, including Pittsburgh's G. David Thompson. Manhattan's Joseph Hirshhorn, and the world's Joe Alsop, who bought early in the rising Polish art market...
...Rejecting Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's demand that a three-man secretariat replace Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold as head of the U.N., the U.S. promised to use its veto to preserve the status quo. Russia's "troika" proposal, argued Rusk, not only "flies in the face of everything we know about effective administration" but attacks "the equal rights and opportunities now enjoyed by all members of the General Assembly-and the protection afforded them by the U.N.'s peace-keeping machinery...
Just as the bullfight affords ordered release for the latent ferocity of Spain, bicycle racing brings Gallic veto worship to near ecstasy each spring and summer. It reaches its peak with the Tour de France...