Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ludwig Erhard has said little on foreign policy in recent years, but he insists, it is "stupid chatter" to suggest that he is uninformed on the subject. He was gravely disturbed by Charles de Gaulle's veto of Britain in the Com mon Market and called it "a black hour for Europe." While he supported Adenauer's treaty with France, privately he makes no secret of the fact that De Gaulle leaves him mystified. The two have met on several occasions, and do not really hit it off. In any case, says Ludwig Erhard somewhat nervously, "De Gaulle...
...Combs is the only man in the country who went further than Bobby Kennedy on the race issue," he said last week. If elected, Nunn said, he would not only rescind the Combs order, but also would not introduce civil rights legislation in the state general assembly and "would veto any legislation introduced under the guise of civil rights if it infringes on the constitutional rights of the citizens...
Unfortunately, setting up a new democracy in Santo Domingo is the easy step. Any attempt to establish constitutional government and non-Soviet socialist democracy in Latin America can only begin there. As long as the military has the de facto veto power over reform programs that it exercised this month in the Dominican Republic, democracy in Latin America will be simply an army puppet-show. Real democracy must bring what most of the people in the Dominican Republic and elsewhere in the hemisphere now see as their right--thorough, far-reaching social reform...
Only one newcomer was among the top seven candidates in the returns. Eighteen candidates will ultimately vie for the nine places on the Council, which advises the mayor on urban renewal and can veto municipal expenditures...
...backed by his dashing half brother, Major General Chiang Wei-kuo, 47. As minister without portfolio in the Cabinet and special adviser to the President, Ching-kuo works closely with his father. Another source of strength is Ching-kuo's 100,000-man Youth Corps, and his veto power over promotions in the army gives him enormous influence with junior officers...