Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...military, judiciary, and police in the hands of the whites, and guarantees that Muzorewa's government will not be able to restructure the country--or even pass anything Ian Smith doesn't want. The whites retained over a fourth of the seats in Parliament, as well as veto power over any constitutional changes. Plus, the whites elected their own representatives earlier this year, and got to vote again to add to Muzorewa's margin...
...health costs. Carter's assumes passage of the hospital cost containment bill and it might also require that the fees charged by physicians be negotiated by the Secretary of HEW and a board composed of consumers, insurers and health care representatives. In essence, Kennedy advocates giving the Government veto power over payment scales worked out on a state basis through bargaining among the insured, the insurances, the doctors and hospitals...
...facts shows the farcical nature of Ian Smith's "settlement." According to this arrangement, the whites control the key ministries (including the military and police), along with 28 per cent of the legislature (although whites make up less than four per cent of the population), thereby holding effective veto power over any significant legislation. Moreover, the most important black organizations--those which make up the Patriotic Front--are excluded from the government and denied all political rights to operate. Ian Smith has steadfastly refused to negotiate with guerilla leaders...
...there is no doubt that under the new constitution the 212,000 whites will still have a special status. Though they account for only 4% of the population, they are guaranteed 28 of the 100 seats in the parliament, and for ten years will have control, through a complex veto provision, over such vital areas as the judiciary, the civil service and the security forces. The whites are also guaranteed at least five of the new cabinet posts, presumably including one for Ian Smith...
...referendum in which they voted overwhelmingly in favor of an Islamic republic. The affirmative vote created the nation's first "government of God," declared the Ayatullah Khomeini. The monarchy will be replaced by a democratic system with an elected legislature; religious leaders will probably have some kind of veto power over prospective laws. The success of the yearlong Iranian revolution, which ousted a dynastic autocrat who dreamed of turning his country into a Western-style industrial and secular state, was hailed as "a new dawn for the Islamic people," in the words of one Kuwait newspaper. Palestinian fedayeen poured into...