Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before Hammarskjold, the U.N.'s big achievement had been the intervention in Korea to halt the southward thrust of Asia's Communists.* It was essentially not a U.N. action but a U.S. action with U.N. sanction; in the field, it ended with tragic indecision. When he took over three years after the Korea decision, Hammarskjold, a Swedish diplomat whose name was not only unpronounceable but virtually unknown in the rest of the world, approached his task with modest caution. Few spotted the fire behind those distant blue eyes. Then came the 1954 U.N. resolution urging the release...
Within days Diem was bound for Saigon with France's sanction to form a Cabinet. It would be no easy task. Diem had been out of the country for four years, had become a virtual unknown among the mass of his countrymen. Perhaps the sum total of his national support was at Saigon's airport when he stepped off the plane: five hundred personal friends, Catholic priests, village dignitaries and former colleagues in the old French colonial government...
...happy with the way the anti-Communist war was going. Last fall the Viet Cong opened its new campaign, boosting the killing to an average 800 a month. Many soldiers blamed Diem for keeping political officers in command, refusing to allow even a company to move without his sanction. Along Saigon's Rue Catinat, the sidewalk cafés buzzed with rumors of assassination or a coup...
...signifies, too, an impatience with using the future as an excuse for dull ritual or as a grim projection of personal disappointments. As an excuse, the future is often invoked to sanction a witless routine leading to rewards, honors, appointments--the joke being that "status" as a goal, like grades, is a confusion of sign for substance...
...athletics there was more change. The Faculty passed a resolution attacking the over-emphasis on intercollegiate athletics and cut sharply the number of sports events which would receive University sanction. Later, winter events were abolished altogether and the students reacted angrily...