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Nothing better illustrated the leftists' mood of triumph than the cheers that greeted their hero Benn as he mounted the rostrum. "Within days of the election of a new government," the silver-haired radical promised, bills would be introduced to impose a wealth tax and to nationalize a broad spectrum of additional industries, from banks to trucking firms. Benn then called for the immediate abolition of the House of Lords. This could be done, he said, simply "by creating 1,000 new peers" who could override the existing members of the House of Lords and vote the chamber...
...almost to plead for his rival's backing. Kennedy responded with what seemed a notable lack of charity. Though he refrained from criticizing the President, his formal endorsement was brief ("I will support and work for the re-election of President Carter"), his ritual appearance with Carter on the rostrum after the acceptance speech Thursday night was perfunctory ?even strained?and his expression on that traditionally happy occasion was reserved and aloof...
...passed and 74 delegates had followed each other to the speaker's podium of the United Nations General Assembly, it was now time to vote. The Assembly's Tanzanian president, Salim Ahmed Salim, invited the 152 delegations to record their votes on two electronic boards behind the rostrum. The boards suddenly lit up as the delegates pushed the buttons at their desks-green for yes, red for no, amber for abstention. After just three minutes, Salim coolly revealed the outcome: 104 votes in favor, 18 against, 18 abstentions. "The draft resolution is therefore adopted," he declared...
...seems a long way from Auschwitz to the speaker's rostrum at the General Assembly. Before Castro could equate the Jews with their murderers of a generation before, the moral force of those murders had to be laid to rest. The easiest method was to pretend the Holocaust did not happen. Many have done this. One British historian alleges that the entire event was a fiction. But of far more impact have been attempts to destroy the cachet of uniqueness, the special horror that the U.N. documents accorded to this newly named crime. The 1976 U.N. resolution declaring Zionism...
Propped up by two solicitous aides, Ye Jianying, 81, the venerable chairman of the National People's Congress, tottered up to the rostrum last week to deliver the keynote speech for China's 30th anniversary celebration. As it was meant to, his appearance before an audience of 11,000 packed into Peking's Great Hall of the People emotionally evoked the most sacred day in the calendar of Chinese Communism: Oct. 1, 1949, when Ye and other victorious revolutionary leaders stood at the side of Mao Tse-tung as the Great Helmsman proclaimed the People...