Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secretary-General U Thant announced the truce terms: "Issues other than those that can be disposed of without objection will not be raised." In short, the Assembly agreed for the present not to handle anything of importance and to avoid taking any votes, while the U.S. postponed a formal demand to deprive Russia of its Assembly vote (under Article 19 of the Charter) for nonpayment of dues on the U.N. peacekeeping operations in the Congo and Suez. While the Assembly is in its limbo of talking without voting, the U.S. and Russia are having another go at working...
Rescue Fund. Over lunch, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko agreed to let a U.N. committee suggest how future peacekeeping missions should be authorized and financed-presumably through the Security Council, where both nations have the veto. Although it was precisely to avoid the veto's paralysis that the West first moved some peacekeeping decisions to the Assembly, Western influence in the U.N. is gradually fading with the growth of the Afro-Asian bloc-which now comprises 60 of the organization's 115 member nations. Under the circumstances, some Washington officials are convinced...
Complicated Failure. It was to avoid just such a result, and to "isolate" the Communists, that former Premier Amintore Fanfani created the apertura a sinistra, or opening to the left, in 1962. Fanfani reasoned that by forming a coalition government between his Christian Democrats and the left-wing Socialists of Pietro Nenni, he would 1) rob the Communists of their strongest allies, and 2) give himself room to press for domestic reforms without foot-dragging by conservative parties...
...voluntary all-purpose peacekeeping fund so that Russia would not have to contribute directly to operations it considered illegal. The U.S. has offered a variety of minor concessions to Russian pride. So far, Russia's position has not changed. But Secretary-General U Thant was working hard to avoid a showdown, proposed delaying the issue. Most delegates still managed to persuade themselves that the clash would somehow be avoided. "There has to be a settlement," said Liberia's pro-U.S. Ambassador Nathan Barnes. "I just can't believe either the U.S. or Russia wants to destroy...
...goings-on - no frogs dancing the frug, no kissing coots. When a leopard set out to stalk a wildebeest in a recent episode, the victim all too surely was brought to earth. "If you are going to show the truth," said Kingdom's Producer Don Meier, "you cannot avoid the proposition that tooth-and-claw battles take place every day in the wild kingdom. We would be doing a dis service to our viewers if we glossed that over." Realism has paid off. Wild Kingdom, carried on 185 NBC stations, stands a few points ahead of its nearest...