Word: dag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with just a trace of scorn in his voice, he suggested that if the big powers could not really get together on a successor to Dag Hammarskjold, the problem might be turned over to someone else-the Africans themselves. "We, the smaller states, will produce one," declared Wachuku, "and will give him our fullest support. That is how we do things in Africa...
None of the Africans seemed to consider that innumerable "offensive, fictitious and erroneous" tirades had been loosed on the U.N. by the Communists (including Khrushchev's shoe-pounding and other Reds' denunciation of Dag Hammarskjold as "Lumumba's murderer") without the West's calling for censure. Some Africans went even farther...
Only a severe space limitation could permit TIME, in its sensitive coverage of the tragedy of Dag Hammarskjold's death [Sept. 29], to omit all mention of Dr. Heinrich Wieschhoff, who was killed at the same time...
...downward, Paar tore into the "yellow journalists," attacked the New York Journal-American for its "warmongering," its sex mania, and its "editorials by Tarzan: Me good American, you good American . . ." Peeling clip after clip from a stack of papers, he cited the A.P.'s mistaken report of Dag Hammarskjold's safe arrival at N'dola to show how inaccurate the printed word...
...Dag Hammarskjold's death has not created any great new crisis for the United Nations, simply because it has not fundamentally changed the nature of the organization or its capabilities, a University expert on international relations declared yesterday...