Word: changing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cameras roved to the observers' section, where little Ambassador John Chang of Korea, who had not been in bed for 63 hours, stared wearily at his shoes and awaited his invitation to the table. At 3:16 p.m., with every seat at the horseshoe filled except the one marked U.S.S.R., the cameras swerved to India's white-haired Sir Benegal Rau as he cleared his throat, rapped for order and opened the 474th meeting of the United Nations Security Council...
...Korea, Ambassador Chang wanted far more than this. As everyone concentrated to catch Chang's dead-tired words, he begged that U.N.'s "moral judgment ... be backed with the power of enforcement ... to expel the invader from our territory." His tense face relaxed a little as, in quick succession, France's Chauvel, Britain's Sir Terence Shone, China's Tsiang, Cuba's Carlos Blanco, Norway's Arne Sunde and Ecuador's Jose Correa supported the U.S. resolution...
...business it could handle; the cafeteria was jammed. At the television sets in the lounge, a large cosmopolitan-looking crowd watched the antics of two children's puppets named Foodini and Pinhead, later switched to the ball game at the Yankee Stadium. Weary John Chang went to sleep sitting up on a couch near the bar, his chin resting on his briefcase...
When Gross had finished, small, intense Dr. John Chang, South Korean Ambassador to the U.S., was allowed to address the Council. In calm, precise English, Chang declared that the invasion was "an all-out effort. . . to bring my country under the domination of the Communist-supported puppet regime of North Korea." Slowly and with emphasis, Chang told the tense delegates: "We are determined to resist, and will lay down our lives. This is a crime against humanity. . . We appeal to the Security Council to act forthwith...
Ambassador Chang buckled his briefcase, shook hands with the U.S. delegate and walked from the Council room, his head bent. The text of the U.N. resolution was promptly cabled to Korea, broadcast by the Voice of America, BBC and the All India Radio...