Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, a band bugled out a rousing version of When the Saints Go Marching In, and in marched nearly 2,000 delegates to the quinquennial convention of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, as unsaintly a crew as U.S. labor has to offer. They were there to elect-or rather, ratify -a president. The man they wanted was a man they loved: James Riddle Hoffa, 44, pal of gangsters, target of national scorn and innumerable investigations, soon to appear in New York to defend himself on charges of wiretapping and perjury...
Barely a week after it peacefully chose a President-elect, Haiti went back to the jungle law that has ruled the island for almost a year. As losing candidate Louis Déjoie fled into hiding, vanished, vowing trouble, the ruling military junta issued a panicky decree authorizing plain citizens to shoot on sight "outlaws," i.e., political opponents of the government. The U.S. embassy warned American citizens of the growing danger and began flying families of U.S. officials to Puerto Rico. Reason: in the growing breakdown of law and order, one U.S. citizen had already been brutally killed...
...Algeria that by the current standards of French opinion was almost generous. It would divide Algeria into half a dozen semi-autonomous regions in which Moslems would for the first time have equal voting rights with Algerian Frenchmen. After two years the regional assemblies were to be allowed to elect a "federal executive council." "With the loi-cadre," said Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, "France will have sympathy and consideration from the free world. Without it, I can answer for nothing...
...Honduran election brought power at last to Dr. Ramón Villeda Morales, who won an election three years ago but was counted out by back-country political bosses. During the interval, while Honduras was ruled by dictatorship and junta, Villeda went off to Washington as ambassador, gradually moderated some of his leftist ideas. As Villeda stopped talking of doubling and tripling wages, the junta warmed to him, decided to let the voters elect a constituent assembly. In last week's balloting, Villeda's Liberals won 36 out of the 58 seats. The assembly also has legislative powers...
Last week, as it came time to elect a Secretary-General for another five years beginning next April, Bachelor Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden was the only candidate for the world's most prestigious and lucrative ($55,000 a year taxfree) civil service job. Though the Russians had been peeved over his role in the U.N.'s handling of the Hungarian revolt, everyone acknowledged that this reticent and precise diplomatic technician, who never exceeds his authority but never hides behind its limitations if he sees a way of being useful, had done a good job in a frustrating position...