Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thus put a damper on the Alliance for Progress. The House also rushed through a drastic amendment denying any special U.S. aid to the United Nations until all other nations had met all of their U.N. financial obligations-a ban that, in effect, would give any nation a veto over field operations...
...these plans works, it could in the long run lead to the ultimate sensible solution: a European army. Under present circumstances, Washington is a long way from agreeing with Kissinger that a European force should or could be free of what he calls the "U.S. veto." The U.S. is committed to a nuclear war if and when Western Europe is attacked in a way that its conventional forces cannot handle. But the U.S. still insists on retaining a voice, if possible a decisive voice, in determining when that moment has come...
...reason to go to war." Rusk and Adenauer probably saw this as vindication of sorts for their own policies. Rusk had always felt he could talk the crisis to death in his long negotiations with the Russians; Adenauer might argue that his own veto of possible concessions had forced Moscow to back down. It was clear that the Chancellor was still adamantly opposed to discussion of an international authority to control Berlin's access routes. Said der Alte, "As I have told you before, the Soviets will give you nothing on major points, and only bargain in order...
While the other four permanent members of the Security Council-Britain, France, Nationalist China and the U.S.-have cast a total of only seven vetoes, Russia has resorted to the veto 99 times. Among other things, the Reds blocked moves to investigate the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948, to end the Berlin blockade, to censure bloody Soviet suppression of the 1956 Hungarian revolt. Four times Russia killed resolutions concerning disarmament, and 51 times it vetoed U.N. membership for clearly qualified nations. Last week Russia cast veto No. 100, merely to curry favor with India...
Died. Francis Higbee Case, 65, wispy, upright Republican U.S. Senator from South Dakota since 1951 (after 14 years in the House), known for his 1946 House labor bill demanding tighter controls on union bargaining, which though vetoed by President Truman, was the precursor of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act; of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md. A conscientious lawmaker whose major interests were water conservation and development of the Missouri River basin. Case rocked the Senate by rising during a 1956 debate on a natural gas bill to make a speech implying that gas producers had attempted...