Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...threat of a veto from either superpower has so far stymied action in the United Nations Security Council on proposals for bringing a halt to the two-front war, the fourth in the Middle East since...
...part, the Pentagon victory was engineered in the White House; President Nixon had threatened to veto anything below $79 billion for fiscal 1974. But most of the success was the result of the Defense Department's own efforts...
...Twin Cities Metropolitan Council in Minnesota, which plans development for nine counties and has veto power over growth-inducing facilities-including projects like airports and sewers...
...Enjoying this taste of the respect Americans of status accord a president--no matter how shadowed he may be--Nixon held one press conference, and then another, to announce that he was no longer "wallowing in Watergate" but moving on to unspecified Business of the People. Within days he vetoed a health services bill--remaining undefeated in veto battles with Congress at 5-0--and signed into law a ban on profootball TV blackouts...
...Pakistan's closest ally, China has withheld recognition of Bangladesh, and last year used its veto in the Security Council to deny it U.N. membership. Some sources in Dacca now believe that Peking will recognize Bangladesh even before Pakistan does. That would allow the Chinese to recover a profitable market for their manufactured goods-and offset the favorable impression that Moscow made in Bangladesh by its postwar relief efforts...