Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called for a diminution of Christian power. They accepted reluctantly the proposition that the presidency should remain in Maronite hands, but they wanted the powers of the job trimmed. One proposal was that the Prime Minister, traditionally a Sunni Muslim, should be given more authority, including the right to veto top-level appointments in the army and civil service. Since "the post of army commander has customarily gone to a Maronite, the Christian delegates were horrified by the proposal, arguing that it would heighten Christian insecurities...
...King Hussein. Earlier this year, Jordan drafted a United Nations resolution critical of Israeli West Bank settlements, with a text based entirely on previous U.S. statements on the subject. When the Jordanians asked the Reagan Administration to sponsor the resolution in the Security Council, or at least not to veto it, the U.S. refused...
...this issue come out now, and at the initiative of the U.S. Congress and not the government of Israel? This is the sad situation we're in: Israel can receive arms, grants, help and all other kinds of assistance without question. Israel has a right to veto anything the U.S. decides to do for any of its Arab friends...
...fact that Commonwealth voters could veto a disposal site in Massachusetts has outraged negotiators from other states in the compact, says Judy A. Shope, a specialist on radioactive waste for the League of Women Voters. Shope explains that compact members feel the law enables Massachusetts to shirk its responsibilities under the pact...
...made a name for himself as a "defense reformer", Mondale was talking about these issues long before the Colorado senator began proselytizing his new ideas. As a senator, Mondale led the fight against MIRVs and the B-1 bomber, and as vice president he lobbied successfully for a presidential veto of congressional authorization of billions of dollars for a nuclear aircraft carrier, an issue Hart claims to have taken the lead...