Word: slim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trial for the cover story, edited by Henry Grunwald. For Writer Hughes, 40, onetime TIME correspondent in Africa and Germany, the international tensions of recent weeks have provided a world tour by typewriter. As well as writing this week's cover story on U.N. Assembly President Mongi Slim, he wrote the cover stories on south Viet nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem (Aug. 4), East Germany's Puppet Ruler Walter Ulbricht (Aug. 25) and Nikita Khrushchev (Sept...
Slowly, with dignity, dapper little Mongi Slim of Tunisia walked up the seven steps to the green marble rostrum and took his seat as president of the United Nations' 16th General Assembly. Before him were the diplomats who had elected him, a motley crowd of delegates from every corner of the world. "It is hard for me to express the great grief I experience," said President Slim, speaking in French. "The Secretary-General of the United Nations fell a victim to his duty. He died, one might say, on the battlefield of peace...
...these words, , the eyes of the listening delegates flickered to the place on Mongi Slim's right-Dag Hammarskjold's empty chair...
...also could take solid comfort from the fact that Mongi Slim was president of the Assembly. Slim is a man of Western orientation, experienced in Western parliamentary tradition (see box). In the further maneuvering over the succession this week, Slim's presence in the chair means assurance at least that the West will get equitable treatment on the embattled Assembly floor...
...Assembly's Steering Committee, meanwhile, meeting in the Trusteeship Council room under Slim's chairmanship, the regular Assembly business proceeded with the compiling of an agenda. As always, this was of special interest to the small countries that depend on the U.N. for a platform, for protection, and for the heady excitement of sharing in the management of the world. Their resolutions (such as the indignant motion of Yemen, the Sudan, et al. accusing Britain of armed aggression in the little desert sultanate of Oman four years ago) were all over the new agenda. In all, 90 items...