Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thus made it clear that he was not on hand to disturb Laotian neutrality (which was imposed by the 1954 Geneva agreement), Hammarskjold was able to proceed with his plan. He invited Economics Expert Sakari Tuomioja, conservative-minded onetime Premier of Finland, to go to Laos as the Secretary-General's personal representative...
Once more Hammarskjold had taken the initiative to get the U.N. "presence" felt without running the risk of a Security Council veto or running afoul of the General Assembly's volatile political alignments. Hammarskjold himself likes to talk of the necessary evolution of his office, and of his competence to take actions "with the consent or at the invitation of governments concerned, but without formal decisions of other organs of the U.N." His authority he finds in Article 99 of the Charter, which empowers the Secretary-General to act in any situation that "may threaten the maintenance of international...
SOUTH AFRICA Condemned by the U.N. For the eighth time in as many years, the General Assembly of the U.N. last week passed a resolution condemning South Africa's official policy of apartheid, the segregation of whites and nonwhites. The vote this time was an overwhelming 62-3 (with seven abstentions), the only dissenters being three African colonial powers, Britain, France and Portugal. The South African delegation itself boycottedl both the debate and the vote...
...REVEREND AUGUSTIN BEA, 78, a German-born Jesuit scholar and one of the few men to whom a Pope has knelt; for more than 20 years he was the confessor of the late Pope Pius XII. Pope Pius wanted to make him a cardinal in 1946, but Jesuit General Janssens urged the Pope not to, because some Vatican veterans felt that Jesuits had been overly favored (Pius XI had created two Jesuit cardinals, had turned over to the Jesuits both the Vatican radio and the observatory at Castel Gandolfo; Pius XII had two Jesuit private secretaries...
...gasped Major General Lew Wallace. "Did I set all this in motion?" In 1899, the hard-riding, hard-writing Civil War commander was already appalled by the smashing success of his first historical novel, Ben-Hur, which in 19 years had sold 400,000 copies. And that, though the general did not live to see it, was only the beginning. By 1920, a stage version of the general's work had been running 21 years, had been seen by 20 million fans, had grossed $10 million. In 1926, M-G-M turned it into the first of the cinemammoths...