Word: congos
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...discussion of the U.N.'s function as an action organization, Gardner defended the American decision to support the United Nations' Congo operation as "the lesser of several evils...
Gardner said that the United States was presented with three alternatives in the Congo...
...Republican Chairman Miller seems happy. "Now," he says, "we have a program." Also in Congress last week: > The Senate gave the U.N. a convincing vote of confidence by authorizing President Kennedy to provide the hard-pressed organization with up to $100 million for its operations in the Congo and the Middle East. The 70-22 vote ended three months of argument in which Vermont's internationalist Republican Senator George Aiken led opposition to the President's request to buy 25-year bonds, insisting instead on a three-year loan. The adopted compromise (which Aiken agreed to) permits...
...Tower of Babel. Such talk puzzled the Senators. Just what, asked Alaska Democrat Bob Bartlett, did Walker mean by "real control apparatus." Replied Walker: "The real control apparatus" can be identified by its effects and what it is doing, it did in Cuba, what it is doing in the Congo, what it did in Korea. All these were done by people. So the apparatus is in those who wanted to see these happen, and the propaganda front are using for this and the means to do it with is the United Nations, which is the nearest thing to the Tower...
...would converse in French. - Back to Africa bounded Ireland's choleric, keen-witted Conor Cruise O'Brien, 44, the literary critic and critical diplomat who was chief of the U.N.'s Katanga force until he resigned in a huff over British and French policy in the Congo. New post for Dr. O'Brien: the vice-chancellorship of the University of Ghana, under "Chan cellor" Kwame Nkrumah...