Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also on last week's U.N. agenda: choosing a successor to U.N. Secretary Trygve Lie, who is resigning after seven years because of Russian disfavor. His successor must 1) get the votes of at least seven of the eleven Security Council members; 2) avoid a veto by one of the permanent Big Five (U.S., Britain, France, China, Russia); 3) secure ratification by two-thirds of the General Assembly...
...only one vote (Russia). Denmark proposed Canada's Lester Pearson, and many believed that he would not be actively opposed by Russia. Pearson overcame the first obstacle with nine votes (U.S., Britain, France, China, Chile, Denmark, Pakistan, Colombia, Greece), but fell before the second, a Soviet veto (its 56th in the Security Council). The ballots, which are supposed to be secret but aren't, were then ceremoniously burned in a tin wastebasket. One possibility: if the Security Council cannot find anyone acceptable to Russia, it may decide to stick with...
...been a prime exponent of the Soviet-opposed Indian Truce Plan. His acceptability to the Russians is hard to understand, but it makes him the leading candidate. Only China threatens opposition because India has recognized the Peiping Government. But the Nationalists would probably not block Rau's election by veto...
Three commissions, mutually agreeable to Egypt and Britain, will police the operation. The most important one is a commission which during the transition may veto acts of British Governor General Sir Robert Howe, uncrowned monarch of the Sudan. Two Sudanese, an Egyptian, an Englishman and a Pakistani will form the commission; thus it will have a Moslem majority-a concession by the British, who had long argued that the 2,000,000 half-clad, ignorant natives of the South Sudan had to be protected against the Arab majority in the north...
...football games, with the tumblers adding more color than spirit. And at basketball games there was no organized cheering until a few years ago. Before that, a few extroverts would lead spontaneous cheering when it was clearly deserved--a much more sensible approach. The Council might follow up its veto of feminine exhibitionists by recommending that cheerleaders pack away their uniforms and return to informal, genuine cheering at indoor events...