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...form. TIME Correspondent Piero Saporiti had reported that Nazi Adolf Eichmann had been run down by Israeli agents in Buenos Aires and whisked out of the country in an Israeli plane. Off went Argentina's note to Israel, asking for information and tacitly inviting an equally pro forma denial that the Israeli government knew anything about it. But last week Israel's Premier Ben-Gurion replied with one of the most undiplomatic notes in diplomatic history-and the Argentines wished they had not asked...
Selinger's satisfaction was not universally shared. Argentina-from whose soil Eichmann had been kidnaped by Israeli agents last month-seemed content to accept at face value Israel's pro forma denial that the kidnaping had ever happened. But in New York, Nahum Goldmann, prestigious president of the World Zionist Organization, was openly troubled by Israel's unilateral action and urged that Eichmann should stand trial for mass murder before an international court rather than an Israeli...
...Hammarskjold, seeing an opportunity to exert the U.N.'s tranquilizing influence, was quick to turn the U.S. dilemma to account. With U.S. blessing-and only pro forma Russian protests-Hammarskjold, on his own, sent Finland's Sakari Tuomioja to provide a U.N. "presence" in Laos and to look into ways of bringing U.N. help to the Laotian economy. The unspoken condition of U.N. intervention-Laotian neutrality-struck the U.S. as a reasonable price to pay for peace in Southeast Asia...
...Assembly jabbed perfunctorily at the tender old question of Red China's admission to the U.N. But this year India's V. K. Krishna Menon, whose government is unhappy about Red China's aggressive moves along India's northern frontier, put up only a pro forma fight for Peking. With a sigh of relief, the Assembly quickly adopted a U.S. resolution barring Communist Chinese membership by practically the same vote as last year...
...Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver is fighting the nomination of sometime (1953-58) Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis L. Strauss as Commerce Secretary, has requested a hearing during the Senate Commerce Committee's pro forma session on the nomination. Kefauver, aiming to keep the home folks happy on a hot local issue, contends that Strauss violated federal law five years ago by leading the AEC into an ill-starred private-power contract that boomeranged into the Dixon-Yates controversy. Kefauver's hopes of heading off Senate approval of Strauss are slim: not even so staunch a Strauss...