Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sent to the White House, a Senate-House conference report on the $4 billion Food for Peace program. The bill stipulates that the U.S. may not sell farm surpluses to Yugoslavia and Poland unless they are paid for in U.S. dollars. The President opposes that restriction, but a veto is unlikely...
...Center local school systems will work as partners with the Graduate School of Education. They will provide the students and buildings and contributo funds to the Center. Local school boards may also suggest experiments and studies as well as veto proposals by the School of Education...
...years. The so-called Multilateral Force, first formally promulgated by President Kennedy, is one effort to solve the problem. Under the MLF plan, atom-armed surface ships and submarines would be manned by mixed crews from all the NATO nations, and any one of those nations would have a veto power over a decision to fire a nuclear weapon...
...Under his plan, NATO's three nuclear producers-the U.S., Britain and France-would create a stock pile of weapons. "Whatever these countries agree to put in," he said, "should, in an emergency, be available in the common interest, unimpaired by the possibility of a last-minute veto by one or another of the nuclear powers." At the heart of Norstad's plan is the creation of an executive committee whose nucleus would be the Big Three. In this respect, the plan is reminiscent of Charles de Gaulle's longstanding-and long-rebuffed-demand...
Faced with a likely Soviet veto, Malaysia knew it had little chance of getting a formal U.N. condemnation, but hoped that the Council session would at least mobilize world opinion against Indonesia. The rest of the world was not exactly rushing to the rescue, but, confronted with continuing violence, the Malaysian government decreed a Federation-wide state of emergency, and two battalions of Malaya-based New Zealand and British Gurkha troops joined the hunt for the Indonesian guerrillas still on the loose in Malaya. To underline its determination, British airlifted an antiaircraft regiment, detached from its NATO Army...