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...government, financial disaster, patronage and corruption. Cambridge citizens, including many Harvard administrators such as then Dean of the Law School Roscoe Pound, decided to take action, establishing in 1945 a series of three reforms. The first two measures were aimed at cleaning up City Hall by revising the city charter and establishing a new electorial system. The third, the formation of a new citizen's coalition known as the CCA, was to ensure that it stayed clean...
Maceroni was originally fired from her $150-per-week post because she claimed the newspaper's charter gave her full responsibility for editorial and advertising policy. Members of the Publications Board disagreed, saying the editor did not have the power to make advertising decisions...
...that greeted the birth of the U.N. during the last days of World War II. Ashamed that Washington's refusal to join the League of Nations after World War I had doomed that earlier bid for collective security, American leaders lavished praise on the new global body. The U.N. Charter "can be a greater Magna Carta," intoned John Foster Dulles, a delegate to the San Francisco conference...
Under the charter, the responsibility for keeping peace lies with the Security Council, whose permanent members are the five wartime allies--the U.S., the U.S.S.R., Britain, France and China.* The cold war, however, quickly deadlocked the meetings, as the Soviet Union routinely vetoed U.S. initiatives. When North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950, Moscow happened to be boycotting the Council. Only because of that Soviet blunder was the U.N. free to raise a force, mostly U.S.-manned and U.S.-led, to drive out the Communist invaders. Since then, the U.N. has never forcefully intervened in a war to restore peace...
...steam. Former Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick has called it a "Turkish bath." Laments Brian Urquhart, Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs: "There are moments when I feel that only an invasion from outer space will reintroduce into the Security Council that unanimity and spirit which the founders of the charter were talking about...