Word: vetoes
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...plans to send Congress a draft resolution Thursday authorizing an attack on Iraq if the President concludes that current diplomatic efforts won't satisfy U.S. demands on Baghdad's weapons. This follows Monday's offer by Iraq to allow new UN weapons inspections that has once again split the veto-wielding permanent members of the UN security council - pitting the U.S. and Britain against France, Russia and China - and made UN authorization of a U.S. military strike unlikely any time soon...
...operations on Chinese soil. Some of the terror strikes ascribed to ETIM were deadly bombings; others were protest riots or attacks on police stations that don't fit common definitions of terrorism. 'I think the U.S. made a diplomatic deal' so China won't use its U.N. Security Council veto to block an Iraq invasion, says Enver Can, director of the Munich-based East Turkestan National Congress, a Uighur exile group. China in return can crack down on Uighur dissidents as 'terrorists' with less risk of censure for human rights violations, Can claims. 'China has the green light...
...Fighting words, and sources in Tehran tell Time that Khatami intends to back them with action - by calling a referendum on the issue if his adversaries use the legislative veto power of the hard-line Guardian Council to block his initiative. A president elected by a solid 70 percent majority on a mandate of reform and democratization is unlikely to have any trouble winning the electorate's endorsement, and the sense of panic in the hard-line camp is evident: Tehran sources reveal that some in the hard-line camp are pressing the unelected spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini...
...bipartisan agreement: the creation of a Homeland Security Department. No one is against it. It's just that the Democratic Senate's version offers civil-service protection to the department's 170,000 employees. But Bush, who wants flexibility to hire and fire, says that could trigger his first veto. These differences may evaporate quickly under Washington's fever to show it can get things done...
Landes, the ImClone official with veto power over internal stock trading, has become a central focus of investigators, sources tell TIME. On the night of Dec. 26, he spent 17 minutes on the phone with CEO Sam Waksal, records show. Waksal had just learned that the FDA would announce its negative decision on Erbitux in two days. Later that night Waksal drafted a note, marked "Urgent--Immediate Attention Required," to his Merrill Lynch broker, Peter Bacanovic, sources say. Stopped from trading by the firm's blackout, Waksal gave instructions to transfer $4.9 million in stock to the account...