Word: sessions
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Meager Results. At an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council, Secretary-General U Thant was authorized to seek an end to the war. With the fervent support of every Council member, Thant flew from New York to see if world opinion meant anything to the combatants. Results were meager. In Rawalpindi, Thant spent most of his time pleading with Pakistan's rabidly anti-Indian Foreign Minister Z. A. Bhutto. Bhutto made Pakistan's position clear: no cease-fire unless it was accompanied by a definite commitment to settle the Kashmir question by self-determination for the Kashmiri people...
...weapons, experts, food poured in. By last year, Pakistan had received $1.5 billion dollars in military aid and $3.5 billion in economic aid?about $50 per person. Relations reached their peak in 1961, when Ayub Khan rode a wave of popularity through the U.S. Speaking before a joint session of Congress, he said: "The only people who will stand by you in Asia are the people of Pakistan ? provided you are prepared to stand by them." He boated up the Potomac to Mount Vernon with the Kennedys, flew to Lyndon Johnson's Texas ranch to write his name...
Suits & More Suits. The Florida accident occurred in 1963, as State Legislators James T. Russell and David C. Anderson were driving home to St. Petersburg from a session of the legislature in Tallahassee. On U.S. Highway 19, Russell's 1962 Corvair Monza went out of control and overturned, hurling Anderson out the door. He died six days later...
Refreshed after a summer's rest, Pope Paul VI last week asked the world's Catholics to pray for the success of the Vatican Council's fourth and probably final session, which begins in Rome Sept. 14. It was a request that the participating bishops could wholeheartedly echo, although perhaps for motives different from the Pope's. After the shattering climax of the third session, when a conservative minority blocked a vote on religious liberty and the Pope overruled the council by unilaterally declaring Mary the Mother of the Church, many leaders could do with...
...Christian religions, Arab nations and Eastern Rite Catholic bishops in the Middle East are still putting strong pressure on the Vatican to excise a statement exonerating Jews from the charge of deicide. But the basic text of that document was overwhelmingly approved during the last days of the third session, and although Vatican observers expect more maneuvers to defeat it, its proclamation is considered a near certainty...