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...drawbacks. One would be via the U.N., whose General Assembly endorsed the Nuremberg principles in 1946. The U.N. could designate a panel of judges drawn from the allied coalition as well as from nations that were not involved in the gulf crisis. Such a scheme, however, might face a veto in the Security Council by the Soviet Union or China...
...retreating Iraqis? And what if Saddam invented some pretext to stop or reverse the withdrawal? Having agreed to a cease-fire, would the allies have to go back to the U.N. Security Council for fresh authority to attack the Iraqi troops, a move subject to Soviet or Chinese veto? The common element in all these suspicions is that, as a senior White House official put it, "nobody believes anything he ((Saddam)) says...
Family Leave. Another veto victim in '90. Bush supports the concept of unpaid leave for employees but feels the government should not compel businesses to provide it. Passage, which is likely, may force the President's hand again...
This is exactly the kind of talk that makes whites insist on some kind of veto power under a new system. The existence of so many uneducated and unemployed blacks, says government negotiator Stoffel van der Merwe, "makes it more important to have a constitution in which the power of the majority is very definitely subject to checks and balances...
...risk being misidentified as enemy planes when they head back from Iraq. But Israeli and American military sources deny speculation that a joint strategy exists, and complain that communications are dangerously inadequate. But Israel is reluctant to disclose its war strategy for fear that the Pentagon will attempt to veto its plans. And Washington refuses to provide greater access to U.S. electronic-surveillance intelligence, concerned that the information might encourage the Israelis to strike Iraq. Although Shamir and Bush talked twice by phone last week, Shamir says "more coordination" is necessary. Other Israeli officials privately warn of a potential disaster...