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...particular, we record with dismay Vice President Steven Hall's decision last summer to give HSA a monopoly on the right to arrange charter flights for Harvard-affiliated groups. We assume that Harvard men and women are intelligent enough to be able to make independent decisions about the relative prices and reliability of various charter outfits, and see nothing to be gained by forcing them to deal only with HSA, HSA, though it fought tooth-and-nail for this monopoly right, and though its rates are higher than the cheapest available, claims it makes no profit from charter flights. Michael...
...ills, he declared that they "are only a mirror of our present political schisms." As a product of those schisms, Waldheim starts his five-year term well equipped to deal realistically with them, and perhaps to become an activist, as he put it last week, "within the limits the Charter sets...
Leaving the Office of Strategic Services, where he had risen to chief of the Africa section, Bunche joined the State Department and became one of the authors of the United Nations Charter. In 1946, at the request of Secretary-General Trygve Lie, he went on loan to the U.N.; he joined the permanent secretariat the following year and quickly became the Secretary-General's right-hand man, a role he filled until his retirement. When the mediator of the Palestine dispute, Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden, was assassinated by Israeli terrorists in late 1948, Bunche took over. It required...
...challenge the smugness of the American celebration of the nineteen-fifties. In response to liberal academics like S.M. Lipset, Daniel Bell, and others who maintained that fundamental conflict was absent in post-industrial America, and that decisions about the direction of society were purely technical, SDS's founding charter--the Port Huron Statement--condemned a "perverted democracy" that permitted "disastrous policies to go unchallenged time and again." These charges--which seem mild in retrospect--represented a sharp break with the political past in a pre-Vietnam, pre-Watts America...
...Impartial. The U.N. Charter originally specified only that the General Assembly should vote on a candidate recommended by the Security Council. The first Secretary-General, Trygve Lie of Norway, was an energetic labor leader who earned the enmity of Russia by organizing the U.N. defense of South Korea. When he left office, the Soviets objected to more than a dozen prominent candidates and finally agreed to the obscure Dag Hammarskjold only because they mistakenly thought he was a colorless bureaucrat. When Hammarskjold proved to be a vigorous leader who heavily committed U.N. troops and funds in the Congolese civil...