Word: dag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists happily joined the Afro-Asians, posing as the greatest anti-colonialists ever. Finally, last week, the Soviet delegates watched gleefully as a solid group of Africans joined the Reds in defeating (by one vote) a U.S. effort to promote a round-table conference of Congolese leaders and endorse Dag Hammarskjold's recent efforts to keep order...
...suggest you give Mr. Dag Hammarskjold the honor he deserves...
...veteran of 15 years with P.T.I., Lazarus scored his first big Congo scoop when he reported that Congolese troops were threatening to attack the residence of India's Rajeshwar Dayal, who is U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's personal representative in the Congo. Spotting the story in the august Times of India-one of 200 Indian dailies that sub scribe to P.T.I.-Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru rose in India's Parliament to protest the hostile attitude of the Congolese government toward his countryman. But other Congo hands could find no evidence for Lazarus' sensational story...
...Jindabyne. Mitchum and Kerr sometimes sound like Aussies-come-lately, but on the whole they manage the loose-elbowed looks and snarly charm of the permanent residents. Peter Ustinov, playing an unmarried remittance man who has to beat the girls off with a waddy, makes a comical old dag. But when it comes to stealing scenes, the actors often have to give way to the dingoes, the wombats, and especially to the endless flocks of sheep that drift across the screen like clouds with hooves. Sheep are also involved in the film's best sequence, a glorious piece...
Fortnight ago Dag Hammarskjold warned the U.N.'s 99 member nations that his treasury was "virtually empty." He got respectful enough sympathy from everyone else, but as usual, it was the U.S. that quietly put up the $20 million, which should carry the U.N. through to the end of the year...