Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officially do not concern the inequities of consumption and distribution of resources by which to use food resources. It isn't even a conference in any real food sense, but something like a conspiracy of silence about the structure of poverty and dependence. The rich countries will impose a veto on any efforts to equalize the initiative in debates about outcomes. If 'they' don't like what we will give them, 'they' can go to hell...
...Botha, permanent representative for South Africa. Botha's concession came too late to block a Black African resolution calling for South Africa's expulsion from the U.N. The motion failed, however, when the three Western members of the Security Council-the U.S., Britain and France-cast a veto against...
...Veto. The most significant of the policy reversals was Botha's promise that South Africa will "do everything in our power to move away from discrimination based on race or color." That may be a difficult promise to fulfill. It seems unlikely that the ingrained traditions of apartheid can be altered quickly and dramatically enough to assuage Black Africa's decades of accumulated rage...
...been for the vetoes, South Africa would have been a victim of the U.N.'s peculiar double standard-racism practiced by white regimes is bad, but the racism of black governments is somehow permissible. In his address, Botha suggested that some morally righteous U.N. countries might profit from closer scrutiny of their own recent histories. Explaining the U.S. veto, Ambassador John Scali argued that the expulsion of South Africa would create "a shattering precedent" that might be invoked against any U.N. nation out of political step with majority sentiment. According to diplomatic sources, the possibility of an Afro-Arab...
Winning what appears to be 296 of the 435 House seats, the Democrats will have over a two-thirds majority and the first "veto-proof" House since the Johnson landslide...