Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NATO Defense. "NATO has decided to establish stocks of nuclear warheads which will be readily available for the defense of the alliance in case of need. In view of the present Soviet policies in the field of new weapons, the Council has also decided to put intermediate-range ballistic missiles at the disposal of the Supreme Allied Commander Europe. The deployment of these stocks and missiles and arrangements for their use will be decided in conformity with NATO defense plans and in agreement with the states directly concerned...
...vast Royal Dutch Shell Co. holdings in Surabaya and Balikpapan. And at week's end Premier Djuanda announced that the fountainhead of the anti-Dutch campaign, Sukarno's Action Committee to Liberate West Irian (West New Guinea), had been dissolved, its functions taken over by the National Council...
Immaculate in a dark, double-breasted suit and light-colored tie, jaunty Mayor Lauro, 70, pushed through the throng into the council chamber. He went, not to the mayor's chair, but to a seat among his Monarchist councilors...
...president of the council read aloud a letter from Mayor Lauro: "I have the honor to present my irrevocable resignation ..." The opposition cheered. Heavy glass ashtrays were pounded on the tables. Fights broke out among the spectators. Strong-armed police hustled the brawlers outside. But his opponents cheered too soon. The mayor, continued the council president, was resigning only to announce his candidacy for a seat in Italy's Parliament...
Well aware of Lauro's popularity, Naples' Christian Democrats had hasty second thoughts. They offered a resolution in council protesting that "it is not time to talk of resignations. We invite the mayor to open full discussion of the accusations." Lauro was not interested...