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...order to pacify the area and allow the pipeline to go through, the SLORC has increased its military presence and forcibly relocated thousands of villagers. The SLORC is a partner in the Total-Unocal venture and retains the option of a stake in Texaco's consortium. U.N. Special Rapporteur Yozo Yokota made the connection between SLORC's presence and human rights abuses in 1995, stating that "forced labor, forced relocation, arbitrary killings, beatings, rapes, and confiscation of property by the SLORC are most commonly occurring in border areas where the Army is engaged in military operations or regional development projects...
...express my feelings of regret that editorial demands made it impossible for you to include his most recent achievement as chairman of the American delegation to the UNESCO-sponsored International Conference of Artists held in Venice September 1952, where he served brilliantly not only for the delegation but as rapporteur for the conference...
...familiar faces was missing -that of Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk, wartime underground leader and once Hungary's dreaded Minister of the Interior. Since Rajk's name had headed the single list of candidates in his district, his election had seemed sure. When the rapporteur of the Mandate Credentials Committee omitted Rajk's name from the list of new deputies, an uneasy question began to be asked around Budapest...
Furtively the delegates studied their watches as tall, purposeful Rapporteur Madame C. A. Clyver droned her way through report after report. Then at last the interminable verbosity that had plagued the League's whole life came to an end. "Our business is done," announced President Carl Hambro. "We have lost many illusions, many ideals, but a better, stronger instrument has been forged. . . . Today is what is known in America as Commencement...
...under Premier Blum officially was responsible for bogging down the State's finances in such a morass that the Blum Cabinet chose with relief to resign, namely Vincent Auriol. Today he is Minister of Justice in the new Chautemps Cabinet. Last week the Senate Finance Committee's rapporteur, Abel Gardey, flayed him in a long speech which the Senate liked so well it ordered his words posted up on public billboards all over France. Senator Gardey charged that Vincent Auriol when he was Finance Minister had been such a promise-breaker that the point was finally reached...