Word: vetoes
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...clinch the deal, De Klerk had to abandon demands for ironclad guarantees that whites and other minorities would share power indefinitely. He had sought a system in which whites would in effect have a permanent veto in such vital affairs of state as defense, foreign policy and the economy. But last week he gave up his insistence that the new coalition Cabinet could act only with a two-thirds vote. Instead the President will be required merely to consult the Cabinet in a "consensus-seeking" spirit...
With George Bush in the White House, much legislative maneuvering -- and lobbying -- on Capitol Hill was mere shadow-boxing. So many bills were obviously headed for veto that congressional tinkering with their details was irrelevant. Now lobbyists must go all out to influence committee and floor votes on amendments to legislation that a Democratic President is almost sure to sign into...
...reformers in Moscow, freed from parliamentary veto, will have to deliver on some of the promises. Yeltsin had already reappointed his reformer in chief, Yegor Gaidar, as Deputy Prime Minister, the post he lost last December under pressure from parliament. Gaidar says his top priority will be to rein in inflation, which was running at 21% a month in September and at a predicted rate...
...Senator Nunn draft legislation codifying the original ban if he is unhappy with Hatter's ruling. If Nunn successfully pushes such legislation through both the Senate and the House, Clinton should be true to his moral convictions, as well as the constitution, and veto it. Then let Sam Nunn try to round up enough bigots in both houses to override the veto...
Reno did win the battle to name her own pick for the crucial Criminal Division, pulling in Jo Ann Harris, 60, a distinguished former prosecutor from New York, and Doris Meissner, an immigration-reform specialist, to head the INS. And, says a close adviser, "Janet has had total veto power over everyone. But she's not going to keep score. She doesn't think in those terms, and you couldn't get her to talk in those terms." Friends say Reno has no regrets about not being part of Clinton's inner circle. As a White House aide remarked...