Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been willing to pay. The problem, decided De Gaulle, lay not in the U.N. Charter-which, "with Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and Chiang Kaishek, I had the honor of working out"-but in the fact that the General Assembly had usurped the powers delegated by the charter to the veto-conscious Security Council. "Under the pressure of events in Korea, in Suez, in Hungary, and of the immoderate abuse by the Soviets of their veto, the United Nations let themselves go beyond their nature and their possibilities -they went beyond their charter," said De Gaulle. "It is obviously necessary that Washington...
...revenues in 1965, called for "a year of restraint." Republican Chafee, who won a fairly spectacular ticket-splitting victory amidst the Democratic sweep and is being watched as a Republican comer, faces a new test; in the past, he managed to cope with a narrowly Democratic legislature through his veto power, but now both houses have Democratic majorities large enough to override...
...Goldberg himself entered the controversy, set up a meeting of Wirtz, Meany and himself. There, Justice Goldberg judiciously suggested that Wirtz rescind his demand that Henning leave. That may change in the future, but for the moment George Meany had chalked up a singular and unusual victory-an outside veto over who goes and who stays in a Government department...
...based Pershing short-range missiles, both to be mix-manned. German influence would be much less than in the original MLF, a welcome feature to the anti-German left wing. The whole setup would be commanded by a vague "single authority," in which all member nations would have a veto...
...becoming to a Harvard student," says Dean of Students Robert Watson. Other Ivy League schools have similar attitudes. "If a student gets arrested, that's his problem."says Cornell Dean of Students Stanley W. Davis. Columbia's President Grayson Kirk has the right of veto over campus speakers but never uses it; last year students there chartered a Sexual Freedom Forum...