Word: vetoes
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...hard line is welcome, although late. "The Administration realized we had been had," says a U.S. diplomat in El Salvador, "that we were not supporting genuine anti-Communists but feudalists or worse." Last month Reagan exercised a pocket veto of the two-year-old human rights certification law, which had obliged him to certify twice a year that El Salvador was making headway against the quasi-official terrorism...
...Yassir Arafat's and his men from Beirut, the subsequent fragmentation of the group, and now sectarian fighting in Tripoli have finally demonstrated to the world the utterbankruptcy of this band of terror and its complete lack of a mandate from the unfortunate Palestinian people. If Yassir Arafat's veto on negotiations can finally be removed, all parties, including the truly homeless West Bank Palestinians, will breathe easier and hopefully get down to the business of good-faith negotiations...
...human rights excesses appeared of late to be producing a few positive results: for example, the Ministry of Defense transfered and demoted several officers accused of rights violations, including the intelligence heads of the Treasury Police--noted rights abusers--and the National Police. The visa denial and the bill veto put at least a temporary chill on both developments...
...both crises up to the United Nations. Since its inception he has been a strong advocate of the U.N. and wishes it were more effective. He was one of two Republicans President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 sent to the first organizational meeting of the U.N. and argued against the veto power enjoyed by powerful countries...
Nitze was interested in drawing Kvitsinsky out to see if the Soviets might be willing to raise above zero the number of U.S. weapons permitted. For the West, this was a crucial point: the U.S. has never accepted the idea that the Soviets could veto any NATO deployments. Nitze probed further at a reception at the Soviet embassy a few days later. "Is there room in here for a reduction, say, of 472 that would leave us with 100 weapons on our side?" he asked. "No," Kvitsinsky tersely replied. "It is 572 or nothing." Nitze's response: "Under those circumstances...