Word: vetoes
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...Muslim village of Arab Salmi, bringing the total number of Israeli fatalities in Lebanon to 571. Within shattered Beirut, the 1,250 French troops who are all that remain of the four-nation Multi-National Force were told that their departure was probably imminent after the Soviet Union vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for their replacement by a U.N peace-keeping force. In an austere communiqué following the Soviet veto, the government of President François Mitterrand declared that "France cannot alone bear the responsibility of the international community in Lebanon...
...Administration's right to impose trade sanctions. Warned Republican Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania, who voted against the measures curtailing presidential power: "The Administration would consider this to be so great an intrusion into the foreign policy area that it is highly likely to result in a veto...
Anticipating such questions, the bill helpfully provides "special findings on pornography." If it ever passes (immediately after the mayor's veto proponents vowed to bring it up again), the findings are destined to be the most famous gifts from social science to law since footnote eleven of Brown vs. Board of Education.* The Brown findings, however, were based on real empirical data. The Minneapolis findings are of a more metaphysical nature. They begin: "The council finds that pornography is central in creating and maintaining the civil inequality of the sexes." If that were true, then it would follow that...
...withheld $19 million more until the suspects accused of killing four U.S. churchwomen in December 1980 are brought to trial. It also passed legislation requiring a cutoff in military aid unless the President could certify that El Salvador had made progress on human rights. Reagan used a pocket veto to kill the bill in November...
...Intermediate-range weapons and arms control. The arrival of the new U.S. intermediate-range weapons in Europe late last year was properly hailed as a major success. For if public demonstrations and Soviet pressure had succeeded in blocking that deployment, the Soviet Union would in effect have achieved a veto over NATO's military dispositions...