Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...current move is little better than cosmetic. His budget request would fund only six more biologists for the endangered species listing staff in the Interior Department, a far cry from that department's needs. Carter should press for legislation that would abolish the review committee, and he should veto any ad hoc attempts to pass exceptions to the decisions taken by those charged with protecting the endangered species of this country...
...severe since the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Seeking to capitalize on the shock and dismay, the U.S. promoted a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding the immediate withdrawal of Soviet troops. The vote was 13 to 2 in favor, but the Soviet Union promptly, and predictably, exercised its veto...
There was little chance that the resolution would pass the Security Council, since the Soviets have threatened to veto it. But Washington insisted that it would go ahead with its own sanctions; moreover, the major Western industrial nations and Japan have agreed to respect most of the U.S.-proposed measures regardless of the Security Council vote. Predicted one U.S. official: "Sanctions won't bring them to their knees, but they will hurt...
...supported by his government. He made no mention of the fact that as he spoke, his government's tanks were rolling through Afghanistan. The Soviet envoy's hypocrisy seemed to anger McHenry. Asked by a reporter after the debate whether the Soviets had abstained rather than vetoing the resolution because of a secret deal with the U.S., he snapped: "That is an obscene accusation. A country that is engaged in the rape of another country would be ill-advised to use its veto...
...President, holds veto power over virtually every act of government, and even commands the armed forces. Though the constitution does not name him, when it goes fully into effect after elections this month and in February, Khomeini obviously will become the faqih...