Word: agendas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China's demand for recognition, to apartheid, Algerian freedom, South Tyrol terrorism and the future of Ruanda-Urundi. Everyone was only too eager to dump all the issues on the U.N.'s desks, whether there was any real prospect of solution or not. But all the possible agenda items seemed to fade beside the loss of Dag Hammarskjold. Every delegate knew that the whole future of the U.N. as a meaningful force for peace was in jeopardy. The U.N. now might well again become what it was all too often before the Hammarskjold era-a glass-and-steel...
...Assembly's Steering Committee, meanwhile, meeting in the Trusteeship Council room under Slim's chairmanship, the regular Assembly business proceeded with the compiling of an agenda. As always, this was of special interest to the small countries that depend on the U.N. for a platform, for protection, and for the heady excitement of sharing in the management of the world. Their resolutions (such as the indignant motion of Yemen, the Sudan, et al. accusing Britain of armed aggression in the little desert sultanate of Oman four years ago) were all over the new agenda. In all, 90 items...
...would be an old familiar item, admission of Red China to the U.N.-either as an additional member or in place of Formosa's Chinese Nationalists who have held a Security Council seat since 1945. For a decade, U.S. policy has been to keep the question off the agenda, prevent even a debate. But the changed U.N. power balance has led to changed U.S. tactics, and the first test will occur in this week's Security Council meeting...
...COLONIALISM, as always, is the General Assembly's most fashionable issue. Portugal sat squirming last week as another resolution demanding freedom for Angola went on the agenda unopposed. Algeria will also be aired this session as will be apartheid in South Africa and demands for investigation of conditions of South West Africa's natives...
Theoretically in pursuit of such peaceful resolution, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Rusk will meet this week during the U.N. General Assembly's opening session. Their professed purpose: to set the date and preliminary agenda for an East-West foreign ministers' meeting on Berlin...