Word: vetoes
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...activists' key weapon is the Voting Rights Act, which permits the U.S. Justice Department to veto any districting plan that dilutes the voting strength of minorities. Last week the Justice Department blocked the use of a new redistricting plan for the New York city council on the grounds that it "consistently disfavored" Hispanic voters...
...United Nations send only an observer to the peace conference (Syria had originally wanted the U.N. to play a major role) and that, after the conference had broken up into bilateral talks between Israel and individual Arab states, it reconvene only if the participants agree. Israel in effect could veto resumption of the full conference...
Shamir and his advisers, however, do not want U.N. participation in any form. They see the U.N. as being implacably anti-Israel. One official further scents a propaganda trap in the proposal to give Israel a veto over reconvening a multisided conference. The purpose, he fears, is to enable Syria and other states to put all the blame on Israel if the bilateral talks deadlock and Jerusalem does not let the full conference meet again...
...other hand, a fair number of sanctions do remain. In the U.S., federal restrictions imposed before 1986 are still in force, including the virtual American veto against loans to Pretoria by such bodies as the International Monetary Fund. No fewer than 133 laws restricting or penalizing companies that do business with South Africa are still on the books in 26 states, 22 counties and 85 cities...
...made to speed the embargo on its way to oblivion, as President George Bush did last week. As a positive incentive to keep reform going, he rescinded the bans on most trade with South Africa and on new investment in the country, enacted in 1986 over Ronald Reagan's veto...