Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colonialist plot" that aimed at "Balkanizing" the continent. His neighbors, fearing that Nkrumah had in mind a little colonizing of his own, brushed aside the scheme. Undaunted, Nkrumah has even written his Pan-African hopes into a new constitution that would give him power to dissolve Parliament and veto its acts whenever he felt that an emergency required it. "In the confident expectation of an early surrender of sovereignty to a union of African states and territories," says Nkrumah's draft constitution, published this week, "the people now confer on Parliament the power to provide for the surrender...
...Benson, cited the painful and growing surplus situation and the severe drop in farm income (which in 1959 sank no less than 16% or $2.1 billion from 1958). They warned Nixon that the Democrats would probably pass a wild cornucopia of a farm bill that Ike would have to veto. The political consequences in farm country, they said, were easy to foretell: the Democrats could then declare that the Administration was doing its best to ruin the farmer...
...Hubert Horatio Humphrey, the Democrats' two out-in-the-open candidates, began to jab the Republicans-and each other-a little harder. In Santa Ana, Calif., hard by Nixon's home town, Humphrey said the Vice President would be a "negative, nogo, go-slow, not-now, veto type of executive." At a rally of the amateur-politico California Democratic Council in Fresno, Kennedy warned that the party "would be committing a grave error if it ever tried to out-Nixon Nixon."* Nonetheless, at the same rally, the names of Nixon and of Texas' Lyndon Baines Johnson, Democratic...
...land routes to West Berlin. Fortnight ago, acting with West Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt, Adenauer presented Western summit planners with a memorandum declaring that West Berlin is legally a state of the West German Federal Republic. The implication: West Germany has the right to veto any summit decision on Berlin that the Germans find unacceptable. But the Anglo-American view of Berlin's status is that their own rights as World War II victors constitute the only Western legal claim to maintain garrisons in Berlin...
Willy Brandt is more tactful, but just as insistent, in pressing West Germany's claim. Says he: "The word 'veto' overplays the whole thing. West Germany is part of the Western community. It is normal for the Western powers not to make a decision about a German city without the approval of the German government. If they did otherwise, there would be very deplorable consequences...