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...speaker on the dais of Bal Harbour's Americana Hotel last week was nervous, and he showed it in a shaky voice and several misplaced words. Richard Nixon had good reason to feel a bit of stage fright, since the rostrum from which he spoke faced some 2,000 delegates to the AFL-CIO convention, which had just adopted a resolution severely critical of his new economic plan. In a speech that excoriated Nixon's basic sense of economic justice, AFL-CIO President George Meany had gloweringly shouted that "if the President of the United States doesn...
...Peking delegates fairly gloated. Glaring over the speakers' rostrum at Bush, Iraqi Ambassador Talib El-Shi-bib mockingly suggested that if the U.S. still wanted to save a seat for Chiang Kaishek, "it is very welcome to take him and put him in place of the American delegation." With that, Nationalist Foreign Minister Chow Shu-kai stood up, walked to the rostrum and announced that he would "not take part in any further proceedings." Amid sympathetic applause, he then led his five-member delegation out of the hall. It was the most dignified gesture in a tableau that a British...
Bush released the delegations that had been committed to the U.S. side. When he wearily took the rostrum to make some last procedural motions, he was hissed and booed. "There was an ugly mood in there," he said. "It was a gladiatorial atmosphere, an emotional release at seeing the U.S. get kicked around." When the Albanian resolution came up, shouts of "Si!" and "Oui!" rose as one delegate after another flipped a switch and lighted up the green YES light next to his country's name on the Assembly tote board. Eleven of Washington's 14 NATO partners either sided...
...high dudgeon by now, Russia's Malik grabbed the microphones again, this time to deliver a bullying attack on "Zionist extremists." Glaring over the rostrum at Israeli Delegate Yosef Tekoah, Malik sarcastically asked why the Jews should be a "chosen people" who were "closer to God" than the rest of humanity. "This is religious racism!" Malik shouted. "Religious fascism!" Tekoah, trembling with rage, stepped to the rostrum. Jews, he said, indeed seemed to have been chosen-"chosen to suffer." In a telling swipe at his Bolshevik adversary, he noted that Zionists had been battling imperialism "long before the Russian...
...That? Saudi Arabia's Baroody butted in again, trying to raise a point of order. While he gestured, a fair-haired man in a business suit calmly walked to the rostrum, adjusted the mikes and began unfolding a prepared statement. Who was he? No one knew. Before he could speak, security officers hustled him off. The would-be delegate turned out to be Daniel R. McColgan, a Brooklyn public relations man. All he wanted to do, he told police, was say a few things about China...