Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest single item on the Financial Aid budget last year was approximately $550,000 given out in undergraduate scholarships. Then came the $200,000 earned by College men through the Student Employment Office. (Many men who are not registered with the Office have jobs during the school year.) Lastly came $80,000 worth of loans...
...rumbles from the stove-heated conference tent at Panmunjom had U.N. correspondents baffled-and, for that matter, just about everybody else. As far as the newsmen could make out from the word given by the briefing officer, the U.N. subcommitteemen and their Communist opposite numbers had almost agreed on item 2 of the agenda, the ceasefire line.* There only remained to be settled, it seemed, the relatively minor question of who, if anybody, would hold Kaesong. What, then, was aU the scuffling about in the conference tent? At week's end Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy, chief...
Having discovered this, the U.N. took the obvious course of insisting that the demarcation line would not be finally fixed until the other agenda items had been negotiated and disposed of. The Reds screamed foul; the U.N. proposal, they said, was not "in accordance with the letter of the agenda." The Red charge was true in a formal sense; item 2 should have been settled ahead of item 3. But the U.N. delegates, who consider themselves honest, hard-nosed military men and not tricky lawyers, were unmoved by the Red complaints. Said one delegate: "These people are still our enemies...
...Item i was the adoption of the agenda and the agreement to discuss it. Items 3, 4 and 5 concern supervision of arrangements after a truce is signed (TIME, Nov. 12), exchange of prisoners and recommendations (not binding) to the belligerent governments...
Copies of the resolutions prepared here are sent to the State Department, which acknowledges and sometimes comments on them and the U.N. Secretariat. As to the effectiveness of such suggestions, however, Schwartzberg seems doubtful: "We are merely a public opinion pressure item," he explained...