Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prime Minister also softened his earlier denunciation of the surface fleet concept. He is not opposed to "mixed manning"; he only objects to "any proposals which recommend dropping the fundamental American veto" over the firing of nuclear weapons. Wilson's insistence on such a U.S. veto was meant to calm British fears that West Germany might get its finger on the nuclear trigger through MLF. Johnson assured him that the U.S. will retain its veto in any event...
...year stints, move into rural "camps" (to be built in U.S.-owned parks or forests) or urban "centers" (mostly abandoned military barracks near cities). Forty-one sites in 21 states have been picked, about 130 are projected for completion by next June. Governors can veto Job Corps installations in their states if they wish, but so far none have. Still, Shriver has had his problems with local folks. In Yorktown, Va., last September, residents set up a howl about plans for a corps camp near by because they feared an influx of "Negro hoodlums from Harlem." Shriver postponed plans...
Rescue Fund. Over lunch, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko agreed to let a U.N. committee suggest how future peacekeeping missions should be authorized and financed-presumably through the Security Council, where both nations have the veto. Although it was precisely to avoid the veto's paralysis that the West first moved some peacekeeping decisions to the Assembly, Western influence in the U.N. is gradually fading with the growth of the Afro-Asian bloc-which now comprises 60 of the organization's 115 member nations. Under the circumstances, some Washington officials are convinced...
...SACB was established by the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950 (the McCarran Act) which was passed over President Truman's veto during the early McCarthy era and the Korean War. This legislation empowers the attorney-general to order "Communist-action," "communist-front," and "Communist infiltrated" organizations to register as such with his office...
...only specific proposal to ease NATO tensions is the U.S.'s MLF concept of a 25-vessel fleet of Polaris-missile-equipped merchant ships, manned by mixed crews from NATO nations. This is aimed at reducing the resentment of the allies against U.S. veto power over the use of nuclear weapons and at checking the proliferation of such weapons. The MLF missiles would cover Communist airfields and medium-range missile sites that now threaten Central Europe...