Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After that, Scali was content to make a brief speech, in which he asked for an evenhanded resolution condemning "violence and terror from whatever source and of whatever kind." He told Arab diplomats privately that he would veto any resolution on Israel that he considered too one-sided...
Scali managed to sidestep a veto. The Security Council voted 11-0, with the U.S. and three other nations abstaining, to adopt a resolution that condemned Israel's raids on Lebanon and also deplored "all recent acts of violence"-a phrase that could be interpreted to include Arab terrorism. The compromise did not please the Arabs. Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed el-Zayyat declared that "if the situation in the Middle East defies any solution today it is because of United States support for Israel...
...more than six months public broadcasting has been embattled by an attempt by the Nixon Administration to gain veto power over all programs. The Administration's instrument has been the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, an independent Government board that used to be little more than a conduit for the limited federal funds devoted to public TV. But after Nixon appointees gained a majority on the board last fall, the CPB suddenly took on a new purpose. It not only withheld funds for many public-affairs programs but also demanded the power to kill privately financed programs that would...
...order to negotiate from strength at world-trade talks beginning in September. He will get an argument from protectionist Congressmen who want to require, rather than merely permit, higher tariffs or quotas on imports that threaten the prosperity of U.S. industries. The President prudently proposed to give Congress a veto over the way he might exercise many of the new trade powers that he is requesting. In a typical example, if he decided to grant "most-favored-nation" tariff status to imports from the Soviet Union, either House or Senate could overrule him by a majority vote within 90 days...
Besieged by consumers, Congress was stirred to action. In a price-fixing frenzy, the House Banking Committee voted to roll back retail food prices to May 1, 1972, an economically senseless measure that would be vetoed by the President because it would bankrupt farmers and middlemen. At the urging of the House leadership, the committee reconsidered next day and settled for a rollback of prices, rents and interest rates to Jan. 10, the last day of Phase II. The measure may still be too extreme to win a majority in the House, but public pressures are rising on Congressmen...