Word: mongi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours of trial for the cover story, edited by Henry Grunwald. For Writer Hughes, 40, onetime TIME correspondent in Africa and Germany, the international tensions of recent weeks have provided a world tour by typewriter. As well as writing this week's cover story on U.N. Assembly President Mongi Slim, he wrote the cover stories on south Viet nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem (Aug. 4), East Germany's Puppet Ruler Walter Ulbricht (Aug. 25) and Nikita Khrushchev (Sept...
Slowly, with dignity, dapper little Mongi Slim of Tunisia walked up the seven steps to the green marble rostrum and took his seat as president of the United Nations' 16th General Assembly. Before him were the diplomats who had elected him, a motley crowd of delegates from every corner of the world. "It is hard for me to express the great grief I experience," said President Slim, speaking in French. "The Secretary-General of the United Nations fell a victim to his duty. He died, one might say, on the battlefield of peace...
...these words, , the eyes of the listening delegates flickered to the place on Mongi Slim's right-Dag Hammarskjold's empty chair...
...also could take solid comfort from the fact that Mongi Slim was president of the Assembly. Slim is a man of Western orientation, experienced in Western parliamentary tradition (see box). In the further maneuvering over the succession this week, Slim's presence in the chair means assurance at least that the West will get equitable treatment on the embattled Assembly floor...
Tunisia's Mongi Slim took the floor to appeal desperately for U.S. support. But as a friend of both Tunisia and France, the U.S. could not afford to take sides. Instead, Tunisia got the stifling verbal embrace of the Soviet Union. Sounding trumpet calls against "Western imperialism," Russian Delegate Platon Morozov soon left Tunisia and its problems far behind. With a rattling of nuclear rockets, Morozov threatened instant erasure to those countries that continue to permit the establishment of U.S., British and French bases...