Word: hammarskjold
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Often it is difficult enough to report a simple event correctly. Halberstam relates how nearly every correspondent in Ndola, Rhodesia reported Hammarskjold's safe completion of the plane trip which killed...
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Died. David losifovich Zaslavsky, 85, Pravda's most poisonous penman since 1928, who called Churchill "a broken lance bearer," Truman "a cold-war Napoleon," Hammarskjold "a hangman and murderer," but saved his strongest venom for Boris Pasternak, sneering that he was "an extraneous smudge" and leading the chorus that forced the author of Doctor Zhivago to refuse the 1958 Nobel Prize; in Moscow...
...founders had visualized as part of the office of Secretary-General. His U.N., of course, was useless if the vital interests of a major power were at stake: when Russia brutally suppressed the Hungarian uprising, the Assembly could only pass resolutions of censure. But the Hammarskjold decade saw two operations in which the U.N., for better or for worse, did act, and set remarkable precedents for international cooperation in keeping the peace...