Word: chairmen
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This could be accomplished under the auspices of the Geneva Conference Co-chairmen, perhaps with the help of a specially appointed committee of the Geneva nations assigned the task of negotiating such collective agreement. The U.S. would be included as a participant of the Geneva Conference of 1954. Hopefully, China would also participate, but her refusal to do so should not frustrate these undertakings as long as cooperation among the remaining Geneva powers was strong and effective enough to insure a workable system of guarantees...
...looser interpretation of the accords might avoid part of this mess, but to the chagrin of the Americans, the Indians, as ICC chairmen, have applied the unanimity provisions to the hilt. Until last week there was some doubt that the ICC would agree to the Cambodian and American plan entrusting it with surveillance of Cambodia's border. The Indians felt approval had to be unanimous and to secure Polish support, engineered a compromise which drastically limits the ICC role to investigating "specific complaints" after the fact...
...constitution will permit more efficient planning and less stagnation. Under the old timetable, an outgoing Cabinet elected PBHA's new president so late in the year that he had little time and less perspective to choose officers and evaluate committees. Moreover, the officers did not choose committee chairmen until even later, with only reading period remaining for the chairmen to plan, staff, and fund their committees for the coming year...
...system, however, a three-month period of program planning will precede an intensive annual review session each February. The new president and his executive committee, after further consultation with outgoing officers, will either accept or reject committee plans for the following year. The executive committee then appoints committee chairmen and coordinates solicitation and dispensing of funds...
Under the new system, Executives will have to be wary of undercutting the committee chairmen's authority; otherwise, the initiative and energy of the chairman might dissolve. Theoretically, though, the Graduate Secretary's ultimate power through the judiciary committee and the elaborate planning and approval process should check any possible personal vendettas on the part of a president...