Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after his sensational speech attacking the "cult of personality" last February was to call a meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party to have it confirm his denunciation of Stalin policy. Last week, meeting again to review the effect of his policy, the Committee faced an agenda studded with disaster...
...freewheeling Capitol Hill political habits which he brought with him when he first came to the U.N. have largely disappeared, and ever since the beginning of the Mideast crisis he has shown himself an able tactician, dispassionate and generally diplomatic. Last week he succeeded in keeping off the agenda, for the seventh year in a row, the question of U.N. membership for Red China...
...once the U.S. moved to keep faith with the gallant rebels by offering economic aid "very fast" if requested, by placing before the U.N. Security Council "the situation in Hungary." In-extraordinary Sunday session the Council voted 9-1 (Russia) with Yugoslavia abstaining, to put the complaint on the agenda for prompt debate...
...gathered at 10 a.m. sharp one rainy morning last week in the cream-colored building of the Council of Ministers on Warsaw's Stalin Avenue. This was the inner council, the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' (Communist) Party. They had two important items on their agenda. The first was to reinstate in the party hierarchy Wladyslaw Gomulka, 51, onetime party leader who, because he had refused to castigate Tito, had been disgraced and imprisoned by Stalin. The second item was more audacious: a motion to expel Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, famed Polish-born Soviet soldier...
...foreign ministers scattered to their capitals. But the issue stayed on the U.N.'s agenda, and Secretary-General Hammarskjold went right to work on arrangements for further negotiations to put real meat on the bare bones of principle. The agreement was too vague to promise solid chance of a settlement, and in Cairo, Gamal Abdel Nasser cast fog on the most important of the six principles by asking: "What does Mr. Dulles mean by 'insulating the canal from politics?' The canal still runs through Egypt." The week's events, however, could be counted a broad step...