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After four days of this, India's ailing V. K. Krishna Menon introduced an Algeria-style compromise resolution calling vaguely for negotiations "in accord with the principles ... of the U.N. Charter." Save for Afghanistan and Panama, both of whom abstained, every nation in the U.N. Assembly pounced, 76 to o, on this chance to sweep Cyprus back .under the carpet. "Afghanistan," mused Menon. "Well, they have a somewhat similar quarrel with Pakistan. As for Panama, I guess I was rude to the Panamanian delegate...
...South African Government. A petition will circulate in Harvard this week, similar to one that will be introduced into every university in the non-Communist world, condemning the segregation. Though such action may have little effect, it will further remind Strijdom that his policies are in little accord with the Western principles he is trying to preserve in South Africa. The fact that the Prime Minister felt compelled to change the term "apartheid" to "separate development" indicates that he does feel some embarrassment in the face of world disapproval. Perhaps further moral recrimination will cause him a more effective blush...
...dull, rolling sound from the end of the passage . . . While the noise came nearer the dormitory, the walls, ceiling and floor of the passage re-echoed and trembled behind it ... The students in the dormitory awoke, but none of them spoke . . . Then the door opened violently of its own accord without anybody seeing anything except a dim light of changing color that seemed to control the sound . . . Then a voice was clearly heard. 'Bosco, Bosco, Bosco, I am saved.' . . . The seminarists leapt out of bed and fled without knowing where to go . . . All had heard the noise...
Arabian Announces Accord With Dulles...
...Republican minority members disagreed. "In a close reading of the hearings," they said, "we must come to the conclusion that the technical staff presented leading questions to a select group of witnesses . . . Persons with views not in accord with those of the counsel were not given full and fair opportunity to testify." However, added the Republicans, "the facts brought to light by this investigation seem to indicate that Negro leaders, and those actively interested in the advancement of the Negro people, have much work to do among the Negro people, and that all of the difficulties attendant upon integration...