Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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INDONESIA. In 1949, after The Netherlands, in defiance of continual admonitions from the Truman Administration, persisted in its efforts to reconquer Indonesia, the U.S. Senate laid the cards on the table with a bill calling for suspension of economic aid to any nation whose conduct was "inconsistent ... with the charter of the U.N." Between such threats and the on-the-spot diplomacy of Merle Cochran, later first U.S. Ambassador...
Commissioners themselves do not sit in on all cases, depend on examiners to brief them and justify their decisions. Many commission officials have little knowledge of how to conduct a hearing on industry's problems. At a recent CAB hearing, American Airlines President C. R. Smith snapped at a CAB counsel: "I don't know what you're talking about, and neither do you." When the record has accumulated, often to a height of five or six feet, the commissioners do not have time to read all or even most of it. Lawyers often take advantage...
...rebels were also disappointed in the inactivity of Mohammed Hatta (who in the midst of last week's maneuvering was discovered quietly lecturing on Islamic history at the University of Indonesia). "Hatta is the undertaker," said Sjafruddin bitterly. "He'll sit quietly while the corpse dies, then conduct a post-mortem...
...continent where general-presidents have all too often tried to perpetuate themselves in office. Aramburu's conduct had an exemplary effect well beyond the borders of Argentina. Items: ¶Colombia's five-man military junta, which will hold an election March 16. says: "We shall turn over our powers to a civilian President at 3 p.m.. Aug. 7. 1958." ¶Venezuela's provisional President. Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal. promises elections for a constituent assembly before the year...
...Price of Mediation. French acceptance of U.S. and British good offices had one great immediate advantage for the Western alliance-it headed off, at least temporarily, what would have been a highly embarrassing U.N. Security Council debate on France's conduct in North Africa. Delighted at the prospect of U.S. involvement in North African affairs, Habib Bourguiba quickly agreed to defer Tunisia's demand for immediate discussion of the Sakiet bombing. France, for its part, accepted postponement of debate on her counter-complaint charging the Tunisians with giving aid to the Algerian rebels...