Word: un
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Professor David Cavers of the Law School, whose voice is a soothing drone, is the first speaker. He thinks the UN must act as a peacemaker, and not as a prosecutor. The CRIMSON editors have decided he sounds like a personification of an AP machine. Much of the audience has become faintly restive. Hughes has not yet shown...
...usual half-smile seems to be teasing his mouth towards laughter. And he is still, in his rhetoric, very much the precisionist and the academic. Nevertheless, he does seem in some indefinable way to have grown greatly in stature since last spring: standing flanked by the American and UN flags, he says he wants to be a beachhead of responsible opposition in this country. And he does seem very responsible: he stands tall and serious, and his quiet voice carries very well. "The moment for hope has not passed." Prolonged applause...
Meager are the rewards of virtue. Consider the plight of the UN, which, after years of the most generous admission policy, now finds itself out of seats: when Uganda is admitted this week, representatives of 110 nations will sit in a chamber originally designed...
...Rules Committee. The Senate had added $2 billion to the House-passed $2.3 billion rivers and harbors bill-the traditional pork-barrel measure. Conservative Smith was having none of such nonsense, and Congress could not adjourn until he and Kerr, who championed the Senate action, reached some sort of un derstanding. Confided Kerr: "This is between two old bastards-Bob Kerr and Howard Smith. Smith is determined to maintain his position. I am determined to maintain mine." In the end. Kerr gave...
...nerve-racking negotiating sessions, the I.P.C. steadily gave ground un til at last it offered to surrender 75% of its concession area immediately and give up another 15% within seven years. But the more the I.P.C. offered, the more Kassem asked. Last October, crying ''we shall rid ourselves of wickedness," Kassem finally broke off the talks, revoked all I.P.C. concessions save those covering 740 sq. mi. in which the company was currently producing oil. Then he began laying the groundwork for last week's establishment of a national oil company...