Word: 38th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...auspicious beginning. Joseph P. Lash, onetime radical and United Nations correspondent for The New York Post, thought he had a good idea. In his spare time, he had written a profile of U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammerskjold ("The Man on the 38th Floor") for Harper's and it had gone over big. "It interested people," Lash recalls today with typical understatement...
About 70 war correspondents, out of perhaps 400 who covered the Korean War, have turned up at the Marriott for a two-day reunion. Come June 25 it will be 30 years since the forces of North Korea's Kim II Sung rolled south over the 38th parallel and started the first hot war of the cold war period. Everybody present (wives excepted) is over 50. Most are over 60 and several over 70; most celebrated among them, Novelist James Michener...
...murder of Politician Aldo Moro nearly two years ago. Last week public morale received a further blow when the minority Christian Democratic government of Premier Francesco Cossiga collapsed and plunged the country into what Rome politicians call a crisi al buio: a crisis in the dark. It was the 38th government to fall in the past 35 years...
...following day, Waldheim and his staff on the 38th floor of the U.N. Secretariat waited for a telex message from Tehran that would confirm what they felt certain had been Banisadr's verbal agreement. The message finally arrived late in the day. As Waldheim read it, according to a U.N. aide who was present, he swallowed hard, suppressed an instinct to curse and "looked like a man who had been kicked in the pants." The cable mentioned nothing about the hostages and referred to the commission as though Banisadr was expecting it to hold a trial. Said the Iranian...