Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...General Assembly shortly before the Iran Ajr was seized, President Reagan declared that the council "has no choice" but to take action if Iran refused to accept a cease-fire in the gulf war. Yet the U.S. was having trouble persuading the Soviets to endorse the embargo; a Soviet veto could kill the proposal...
Since any one of the five permanent members of the council (the U.S., Britain, France, the Soviet Union and China) can veto a resolution, an embargo rested heavily on Moscow and Peking. The Chinese, whom U.S. officials charged with regularly selling arms to Iran, have been cool to an embargo. In a U.N. address that was generally easy on the U.S., Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sidestepped the sanctions issue and instead called for joint U.N. protection of gulf shipping...
...Democrat Norman Mineta, whose family was sent to an internment camp in 1942: "The burden has fallen upon us to right the wrongs of 45 years ago." But Administration officials note that restitution payments were made to some Japanese Americans after the war, and predict that the President will veto the measure...
...Services Committee Chairman Sam Nunn, is tied to the $302 billion defense authorization bill. Similar language is included in the House version of the military spending bill. Both are seen as a direct challenge to the President's plans to move ahead with SDI, and Reagan has threatened to veto the defense budget rather than accept the congressional interference...
...death of Dictator Josip Broz Tito in 1980, may now have the opportunity to push through needed reforms. On the reformers' list are such measures as liquidation of money-losing state companies, closer supervision of regional banks by central authorities, and curbs on the ability of regional governments to veto national legislation. Moreover, the Yugoslav press played an unusually aggressive role in uncovering the fraud, and optimists hope that the high-level resignations ^ and arrests indicate that the days of official cover-ups are ending...