Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a lot of honey in the HARYOU-ACT pot, though, and the politicians are already buzzing around it like bumblebees. Buzzing loudest is Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, who threatens to hamstring the venture unless he is given veto power over the choice of its executive director. The issue remains to be settled, but even if the program is not pork-barreled dry, it will be a long time in producing tangible results...
...their own anti-poverty schemes, and money for rural-poverty loans and small-business loans. The only major Senate amendment was one introduced by Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers. It was a sort of concession to states' rights forces, and gave Governors the power to veto youth-camp programs within their borders. Next action will come from the House, which is scheduled to report the Administration bill out of the Rules Committee this week. The prognosis was for much tougher going there than in the Senate...
...European Europe," a sizable piece of French industry slipped into the American orbit with his approval. Persuaded finally that ailing Machines Bull could boost its share of the computer market's sales and cut its losses only with proffered American help, De Gaulle reversed an earlier veto and allowed General Electric to come in and take what amounts to a controlling interest. Last week, after three months of negotiations, the terms and the extent of G.E.'s investment-$43 million-were agreed...
...Beatitude's Head. What the Turks fear is precisely what Greece threatens: to rip Cyprus from the troubled treaty that gives the 18% Turkish minority a veto over the majority Greek Cypriots and set it on the path toward enosis, or merger with Greece. No one is a blunter advocate of this course than wizened, fierce-mustached George Grivas, 66, the ascetic little soldier (5 ft. 4 in.) who led Cyprus' EOKA revolt against Britain in 1959 and spent five years in Greek exile. Dissatisfied with the policies of Makarios, whom he considers dishonest, not very clever...
...formal agreement between the Vatican and the government of predominantly Moslem Tunisia that calls for the surrender without compensation of all but seven of the country's 109 Catholic churches, including the vast Cathedral of St. Louis in Tunis. The government will have the right to veto appointments to the Archbishopric of Carthage, but in return guarantees freedom of religion for Catholics, including the right to maintain parochial schools...