Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Postponing the elections is now a constitutional impossibility. Greater control of the elections by the "Graduates" is not: legally a majority of three-quarters is required to elect a member, and a "Graduate" block of seven votes could effect a veto at elections of the Eight and Sixteen...
Some are arguing that this relationship of tolerance should be abandoned because the majority exercises an intolerable veto. While it is true that violence is vetoed, tactics such as civil disobedience are not similarly checked. Civil disobedience can provide powerful leverage if its objective is sharply clear. What workers cannot do is fight back, and allow violence rather than equality to become the issue. Those headed south have been declaiming at the dinner table that: "I asked myself whether my commitment was great enough to go down and fight for civil rights this summer." This is an important question...
Owning Your Own. This one-man veto was a dramatic demonstration of one of the differences between a co-operative and a new form of communal housing that is making rapid strides throughout the U.S.-the condominium. More and more buyers are demanding them, builders are building them, and state legislatures are making laws authorizing them. Last month New York became the 40th state to have done so in the past three years. A condominium (a word deriving from a 6th century B.C. Roman law of joint sovereignty) is, in effect, an apartment house in which tenants really own their...
...Since independence in 1960, the Turkish minority (17%) has exercised a veto power over the island's Christian majority, the 500,000 Greek Cypriots who were denied the right of self-determination...
...says that France cannot afford the second-generation missile stage, advocates developing a European nuclear force based on a real political authority. But he also opposes the U.S.-sponsored multilateral Polaris force as "no real solution." ∙BRITAIN'S COMMON MARKET ENTRY. Defferre deplores De Gaulle's veto, promised that if elected he would work to achieve Britain's admission. ∙RECOGNITION OF RED CHINA. Al though long in favor of recognition, Defferre criticizes De Gaulle's timing and failure to consult his allies. If elected, Defferre would not go back on recognition, however, "because...