Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rusk might be ready to let East Germans (and even East Berlin Communists) sit on the international commission controlling the routes to Berlin, but they would have no veto power over the travel of U.S., British and French forces along those routes. As "agents" of the Russians, East German cops could stand at the border barriers and direct traffic-but only so long as their signal was always...
...screened membership, and the organization adopted a policy of criticizing the U.S.S.R. as well as the U.S. When Russia's Khrushchev-insisted on a troika to supervise a test ban last year, SANE took ads to say: "We believe that such a three-man council, operating with a veto, cancels out the very purpose of control." When Khrushchev later boasted about firing a 50-megaton bomb, SANE accused him of "an act of nuclear madness" that "contemptuously defied all decency and morality." SANE coordinated the picketing of the Soviet Union's U.N. headquarters in Manhattan by some...
...Europe of Fatherlands proposed by Charles de Gaulle. France's President, who is mistrustful of all supranational institutions that threaten France's grandeur, has long argued that the best way to achieve unity is through a council of heads of government-each with power to veto any decision-rather than a popularly elected European parliament. Other nations suspected that De Gaulle was out to dominate all foreign, defense and economic policies; they insisted that no plan for unified Europe be allowed to disturb either NATO or the economic decisions now in the hands of the Common Market...
Under current treaty arrangements, the U.S. has virtual veto power over the use of force by the Nationalists. But in Washington there was scant support for an invasion. Although State Department experts agreed that severe economic troubles have greatly weakened Mao's regime, most were skeptical that any commando raids by Chiang would touch off a general revolt. The U.S. also could not believe that Khrushchev would sit back and watch the Chinese Communists fall, whatever his disagreements with his rival in Peking. Still, the question of support for the Nationalists was not easily dismissed...
...lobby of Washington's Trans-Lux Theater was lined with two rows of Senate pages handing out bright orange programs. The house was full: on hand were 76 Senators (enough to override a presidential veto), Supreme Court Justices Hugo Black and William Brennan, Postmaster General J. Edward Day, USIA Chief Edward R. Murrow, Marine Commandant David M. Shoup, and some 400 lesser lights-all gathered for a private movie showing of Advise and Consent, based on Allen Drury's novel about the U.S. Senate...