Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...planned to veto any Security Council resolution branding Israel as an aggressor. Washington and Jerusalem hope, however, that most delegates will agree to broaden the Council's agenda to discuss terrorism in general. Possibly (but by no means probably) the debate might lead the U.N. finally to take some action against international terrorism. Conceivably, if the U.N. had ever taken any kind of stand against the jet-age "freedom fighters" who are ready and able to raise havoc and seize hostages anywhere to avenge their own local grievances, the skyjacking might not have happened and the Entebbe drama would...
...matter, and if she is an unmarried minor, can her parents forbid the abortion? Last week, by a vote of 6 to 3 on the first question and 5 to 4 on the second, the court ruled that neither husband nor parent may have "an absolute, and possibly arbitrary, veto over the decision of the physician and his patient." The court did indicate, however, that it might take a different view of a state law requiring some form of parental involvement short of a blanket veto...
...practically reinvented urban renewal in the early 1960s by developing a sound plan to help its decrepit downtown. Then the city's redevelopment agency, which had muscle and was willing to use it, saw that the plan was followed. By having veto power over design schemes, the agency made sure developers used major architects. As a result, planning became a Boston habit...
...South Carolina made a similar request for congressional advice and got a similar answer, but the constitution it approved in March is quite different. Unlike New Hampshire, South Carolina now has a "President and commander in chief with the power to veto bills passed by the legislature...
...legislation passes both houses, it faces a veto from President Ford, who opposes the bill. Jimmy Carter, the front-running Democratic presidential candidate, has also come out against a thoroughgoing breakup of major oil firms−though whether as President he would thumb down such a proposal is open to question. On the other hand, Carter would favor getting the oil companies out of other energy fields, such as coal, uranium and solar power...