Word: beiruters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During Dag Hammarskjold's swift peacemaking mission to the Middle East last week, somebody in Beirut, who knew he was coming, baked him a cake. Presented at the presidential palace, the cake bore these words: "United Nations Save Lebanon." Commented the world's No. 1 international civil servant: "Only the Lebanese can save Lebanon...
...following weeks Paul Henle, professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, will talk on the "Metaphor." George Eden Kirk, associate professor of Political Science at the American University of Beirut, will speak on "The United Arab Republic and the Meaning of Arab Unity." Herold C. Hunt, Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, will discuss "A Look at Education in the USSR." And Albert H. Halsey, lecturer in Sociology at the University of Birmingham, England, will lecture on "English Higher Education...
...that the basic nature of the cold war had changed; it had not. What had been changed by executions inside darkest Communism and the rattle of the riots in Beirut was the terms of the worldwide debate that had sometimes tended to obscure that basic nature. For months U.S. policy had been influenced by the imponderable pressures of "world opinion" toward negotiated agreements with world Communism in general and toward a suspension of U.S. nuclear tests in particular, and in longings for a parley at the summit. Now that pressure was indefinitely postponed-as usual, at the cost...
...start was auspicious. He arrived in Beirut only four days after 50 had died in the capital's bloodiest battle, and in the midst of tension so great that the U.S. embassy had told all 5,000 American residents of Lebanon to stay indoors for the day. But Dag Hammarskjold, imperturbable professional bird of good omen, brought the country-at least temporarily-its quietest days since the revolt began. He moved swiftly into headquarters in the Biarritz Hotel commanding a magnificent view of the Mediterranean, and began conferences with the U.N. observers who had already arrived under the Security...
...Armenian Roman Catholics scattered throughout the Middle East. As patriarch he took the name Gregory Peter XV. Nine years later Pope Pius XII gave him a red hat, and as cardinal he continued administering the affairs of the Armenians, shuttling between Rome and his residence in Beirut...