Word: vetoing
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Ominous Omissions. Drawn up under the personal supervision of Ulbricht, the new document is a monument to his tough brand of Communism. It empowers the Council of State, of which Ulbricht is the chief, to veto any decisions by other government branches, including those of the courts. Slavishly socialist, it pledges eternal devotion to the Soviet Union and declares that East Germany has the responsibility to lead the rest of Germany "into a future of peace and Socialism." Formally establishing the old Marxist goal of the dictatorship of the proletariat, it states that "all political power is exercised...
...lead, zinc, pot ash, electronic products, ball and roller bearings, meat, honey, frozen strawberries, mink fur and watches. The three major bills have impressive senatorial backing: 29 co-sponsors for oil quotas, 36 for steel and 68 for textiles-in the third case enough to override a promised presidential veto. In the House, "there is a growing tendency to protectionism," said Majority Leader Carl Albert of Oklahoma last week, including "a lot of support for quotas...
Referring to the Harvard Corporation's controversial veto of the Harvard Press decision to publish his book, Watson said, "Harvard's lawyers said that Francis [Crick] might not like the book. They never came out and said that it was libelous; they just said that Crick might read it and be unhappy...
...also agreed that a student should not have to get his Independent Study project approved by the head tutor in his field. Under the revised rules he would only need two signatures--his supervisor's and that of a senior official in the department. His own department would have veto power over the project only if he were asking concentration credit...
...than ever before. He has set a nearly impossible goal for himself in trying to unseat an incumbent President, but the realization of that goal will not assure Kennedy of the nomination. As long as President Johnson remains a major influence, he will be in a good position to veto a least one candidate, and he will surely use his veto on his old friend Robert Kennedy, even if the alternative should be a member of the same family...