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...YORK--About 50,000 people rallied yesterday at Dag Hamarskjold Plaza across from the United Nations to protest the U.N. General Assembly's invitation to the Palestine Liberation Organization to join the U.N. debate on the Middle East...
...Brien was an Irish delegate to the United Nations and served the U.N. in the Congo. His book To Katanga and Back and his play Murderous Angels were indictments of the role of the U.S. and Europe in the Congo war. O'Brien portrayed Dag Hammarskjold as a man who believed God had chosen him to bring peace to Africa...
Brian Urquhart is not the first to make the point that the United Nations did not work out as originally planned. But in this book, a comprehensive political analysis of Dag Hammarskjöld's seven years as the U.N.'s Secretary-General, Urquhart for the first time chronicles in precise detail how close one man often came to making the curious organization do what it was supposed to. The author has worked for the U.N. since its inception and is now an Assistant Secretary-General. He is also the first man to be given access to Hammarskj...
From Nov. 25 to Jan. 21, the sun does not rise above the horizon in Tromsø or in the rest of Norway's far north, leaving the region in darkness except for an hour of gloomy twilight at noon. TIME's Oslo correspondent, Dag Christensen, describes the scene at midday: "As the jet speeds northward, you see the moon shining brighter every minute. You glimpse small, isolated settlements, clusters of fishermen's houses along the rugged coast, and little farms at the foot of the towering mountains. As you approach Tromsø the faint, fading twilight...
...Security Council. The first Secretary-General, Trygve Lie of Norway, was an energetic labor leader who earned the enmity of Russia by organizing the U.N. defense of South Korea. When he left office, the Soviets objected to more than a dozen prominent candidates and finally agreed to the obscure Dag Hammarskjold only because they mistakenly thought he was a colorless bureaucrat. When Hammarskjold proved to be a vigorous leader who heavily committed U.N. troops and funds in the Congolese civil war, the Soviets began insisting that he be replaced by a three-man "troika." They dropped that demand only when...