Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Statehood proponents say their plan includes a crucial feature. "A state has complete home rule rights," Allen Grip, a spokesman for Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr., explains. Currently, Congress holds a legislative veto over District laws, controlling D.C's budget and judicial process, including the appointment of judges. The District, moreover, has no voting representatives on Capitol Hill. "No one that is in favor of home rule," Grip says, "could be against the initiative...
Turkey continues to veto Greece's request for readmittance to NATO, Mitsotakis said. He added that Turkey's conditions for accepting Greece back into NATO are totally unacceptable to the Greek government...
...Relations Committee. According to a Senate aide, he said in effect: "I know it's a tough one, but you guys should go along with me on it." Despite these efforts, both the Senate committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week embarrassed Carter by voting to veto his June decision to sell India 38 tons of enriched uranium to fuel the Tarapur nuclear power station near Bombay...
Reagan's pitch was the most pointed. He assailed Carter for the failure of the U.S. to veto a U.N. resolution condemning Israeli expansionism, charged that the Carter-negotiated Camp David documents contained "ambiguities" that "have now brought negotiations to a dangerous impasse" and drew his most fervent applause by declaring that "Jerusalem is now and will continue to be one city, undivided, with continuing free access...
...Israelis took the embassy moves with sorrow, they expressed undisguised anger over the American decision to abstain on the U.N. vote rather than cast its veto. Ignoring the provocative nature of the Knesset vote that had led to the U.N. action, Prime Minister Menachem Begin blasted the U.S. decision as "amazing!" Nor was he in any mood to try to sweeten the atmosphere by making some concession that might get the stalled Palestinian autonomy talks under way again. On the contrary, in yet another action certain to arouse Arab ire, Israel last week announced that it would proceed with...