Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pyne had asked the Council to conduct the survey to confirm his plans for enlargement of present parking space and the possible opening of new facilities in Soldiers Field...
...were not enough. In a froth of anticolonialism whipped up by the 14-nation Arab-Asian bloc, and with the united vote of the Soviet bloc, the General Assembly overruled its powerful Steering Committee (for the first time on a major issue) and voted to debate France's conduct in the troubled North African region of Algeria. The rebellion carried by only one vote-28 to 27*-but that one vote was enough to plunge the U.N. and France into dramatic antagonism...
When President Eisenhower signed the Executive Order authorizing a code of conduct for prisoners of war, he created the first explicit standard for all GIs in captivity. No longer may Air Force pilots resign from the service with an honorable discharge after the same misconduct which sends Army ex-prisoners to jail...
...even though most responsible military authorities abhor the Chinese atrocities, their Stoic code of conduct asks American prisoners to accept them without flinching. If the code allowed prisoners to sign all confessions demanded in violation of the Geneva Convention, on the other hand, the enemy's incentive for torture would disappear. The Communist captors would receive a plethora of confessions--the same confessions they now extract more painfully. Confessions signed so freely would convince no one who does not already believe the "confessions" Chinese Communists have obtained through unspeakable torture. Prisoners of war already carry too many burdens...
...every means to escape. Under new orders issued by Defense Secretary Wilson, military instructors deepen this resourcefulness by training men how to avoid interrogation, to minimize suffering, and increase their chances of survival. Easing the hardship of captivity demands every capacity of each prisoner of war. Yet the new conduct code fails our soldiers when it asks them to rely on their strength in a valiant but obviously hopeless attempt to convince Communist sympathizers of the fairness of American war morals...