Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last spring, Harvard and the AEC clashed over the administration of a $5 million a year grant for the operation of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator. The University contested the AEC's right to veto the employment application of any alien and to control all information released by the CEA to Soviet bloc scientists...
...Germany, while concerned with NATO's future, of course, seems far more interested in the multilateral force as a vehicle for gaining her own nuclear bargaining power. West German defense minister Von Hassel has openly talked of persuading the American "partner" to give up any kind of special veto power as soon as the MLF becomes a military reality. As plans stand now, the Germans would pay 40% of the costs of MLF, not too high a price for a golden opportunity to gain some nuclear independence. In the Age of the Test Ban Treaty (by which, as a signatory...
...safeguard the interests of the Turkish community, who make up 20% of the population, the constitution requires that 40% of the army, 30% of the civil service, and 30% of the police be drawn from Turkish Cypriots. Both the President and the Vice President have the right of veto over certain laws created by the House of Representatives and certain decisions of the Council of Ministers. The result is a series of deadlocks. For example, no Cypriot army has emerged because Makarios wants the units to be completely integrated while Turkish Cypriot Vice President Dr. Fazil Kuchuk holds...
...shifting the crisis to the U.N. would give leverage to the Soviet Union, which can spoil any project the West pursues. At its own option, Russia can veto the Anglo-American proposal, thereby inviting a Turkish invasion of the island as the only means of rescuing Turkish Cypriots, or it can agree to the establishment of the force if it includes Communist troops, thus moving toward the historic Russian ambition of gaining a foothold in the Mediterranean...
...conceded that Peabody's veto might be overturned, but said that both sides were working to line up votes. If the Senate overrides the veto, the bill will go to the House of Representatives, where, Hanson said, there was "a good chance" that it would finally be killed...