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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Belgium, France and Germany agreed never to fight again; American Diplomat Frank Kellogg, who was the originator of the Utopian Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, in which 15 powers, including Germany and Japan, agreed to renounce war as an instrument of national policy; and former United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, who was named posthumously as lau reate in 1961, while his U.N. peace keeping force soldiered on in the bloody morass of the Belgian Congo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Saints and Statesmen | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...Army track team defeated Harvard, 78-57, across the river Saturday afternoon. However, team trainer Henry Jannergran's wife best described what beat the Crimson: "Hela laget var sjukt i dag...

Author: By Peter R. Reynolds, | Title: Army Troops In, Tramples Track Men | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

Hendrikus Johannes Witteveen, 56, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, is the most enigmatic international civil servant since the days of Dag Hammarskjeid, the mystic who died in a plane crash while serving as Secretary-General of the United Nations. An economist by training, Witteveen always carries a pocket calculator, which he whips into action during esoteric discussions of international finance. A strict adherent of the obscure Sufi religious cult,* Witteveen, despite the intense pressures of his job, finds time to meditate every morning and evening. He sees no conflict between the practice of the dismal science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: An Austere Mystic | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

...TEAM by DAVID B. TINNIN with DAG CHRISTENSEN 240 pages. Little Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

...Team is a tense, staccato account of this and other activities during the 1972-73 war of assassination between Israeli intelligence and its counterpart in the P.L.O. David Tinnin, an associate editor at TIME, and Norwegian Journalist Dag Christensen pieced together this story of international dirty tricks from leads provided by the Norwegian court that tried the Mossad agents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

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