Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Desperate Call. Before the Si-nation General Assembly the President struck hard at what he called "ballistic blackmail": the Soviet Union's rocket-rattling and "brink-of-catastrophe" alarms after the U.S. landing in Lebanon. "In most communities," said President Eisenhower, "it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? Pressures such as these will never be successfully practiced against America, but they do create dangers which could affect each and every...
...landing-an Lebanon, he continued, was a response to a "desperate call" from that country's lawful government. On the principle that "aggression, direct or indirect, must be checked," the U.S. reserves "the right to answer the legitimate appeal of any nation, particularly small nations." But the U.S. "seeks always to keep within the spirit of the Charter." When the U.S. "responded to the urgent pleas of Lebanon, we went at once to the Security Council and sought U.N. assistance for Lebanon so as to permit the withdrawal of U.S. forces," but that approach was blocked by Soviet vetoes...
...Capitol Hill, Powell would rate rock bottom on any list of Congressmen's Congressman. His absenteeism is monumental (last year's roll call attendance: 46%); he is noisy, obstructionist and, above all, ineffective. Last year, for example, he insisted on tacking a civil rights clause to the much-needed $1.5 billion school construction bill. Powell knew he could never get the rider approved; he also knew that his intransigeance would kill the bill-which would have helped Harlem's schoolchildren as much as anyone in the U.S. It turned out just that...
Last week three Boyd youths took direct action. Armed with a shotgun and a .22-cal. pistol, they visited Cockrell's chief sponsor. Mayor Willie Berle Horn, told him: "You get rid of Cockrell, or we will. And you'll be next." Answering a Horn call, Cockrell caught up with the boys in a grove of trees at town's edge, where farmers park their trucks to sell watermelons. There, in a wildly confused tussle, the shooting started. While frightened farmers dived under their trucks, Cockrell fell, shot three times with .22-cal. bullets...
...generations, poorer Singapore Chinese have sent their infirm relatives to spend their last days in what the proprietors call "sick receiving homes," but what most of Singapore knows as "dying houses." For $3.33 a month, the two houses on Sago Lane provide a bed for each patient, see that food is brought in from outside, summon doctors (whose chief duty is to write death certificates), and provide a funeral...