Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Librarian Ruth K. Porritt has not veto the suggestion, although she has pointed out the difficulties in paying for heat, light, and an additional librarian. The matter is now being considered by President Bunting...
...compromised with the U.S. on the number and authority of assistant secretaries. The U S wanted five, one each from the U.S., Russia, Latin America, Africa and Western Europe; Russia demanded that either satellite Eastern Europe be included or Western Europe scratched, contended that each should be given virtual veto power. U Thant finally won the right to pick as many assistants as he saw fit, agreed to consult with them over policy, but would not be bound by the advice they gave...
When Brother Ted Kennedy, who has ideas about running for U.S. Senator next year, called from Boston to ask how he could explain to postal workers the President's veto of their pay raise, Kennedy offered no solace and said that he also intended to cut back installations in the area. Said the President: "Look them in the eye and tell them if we don't get the revenue we can't provide the raise...
Zorin had two things going for him: the U.S. and Nationalist China wanted to keep Red China out of the U.N., and the Brazzaville group wanted Mauritania in. Privately, the Brazzaville group threatened that if the West and Nationalist China vetoed Outer Mongolia, forcing a retaliatory Russian veto of Mauritania, they would support the admission of Communist China...
...this year (by having it declared a substantive issue-or one requiring a two-thirds majority). Pressure was brought to bear on Nationalist China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek by President Kennedy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Ambassador to Nationalist China Everett Drumright to give up his veto of Outer Mongolia. Chiang refused to budge; he feared that membership for Outer Mongolia was only the first step in the U.N. recognition of Red China. Bitterly, he sent a letter to France's Charles de Gaulle, asking for his help in threatening or importuning the French Africans...