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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seven leading Latin American nations -Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, Panama, Ecuador-cold-shouldered the U.S. last week to vote for U.S.S.R.-backed Poland instead of U.S.-backed Turkey to fill a U.N. Security Council seat. The failure to muster a two-thirds vote resulted in a deadlock and pushed decision on the issue into this week...
...agreement" of 1946, which guarantees a Security Council seat for an East European nation, is also the agreement that guarantees two Security Council seats for Latin American nations. Although the U.S. maintains that the agreement was valid for only one year, the Latin Americans figured that a vote against Poland would mean certain Soviet-bloc opposition to perpetuation of their two seats. ¶The Latin Americans do not consider the Poland-Turkey contest a big issue even if the U.S. does. Adding Poland to Russia and neutralist Ceylon (which last week replaced Canada on the Security Council) would, they...
While Government and industry spokesmen worried on about how to solve the crucial problems of the nation's railroads, the Interstate Commerce Commission last week took some levelheaded action. By unanimous vote, ICC approved the merger of two major Eastern seaboard soft-coal carriers, Norfolk & Western and the Virginian, allowed them to form a single system with assets of $970 million and 2,746 miles of track serving six states (see map). It was the biggest consolidation of two independent lines since ICC was formed in 1887, and one that President Stuart T. Saunders, who remains as boss...
...stumbling blocks that wrecked the IATA conference last week were 1) when to cut, and 2) by how much. Under IATA rules every action requires unanimous consent of the lines involved, and each one, big or little, has an equal vote. The result was near-paralysis. As one delegate said: "It was not just a case of the jets v. the jetless. The voting was all over the lot by chaps with pistons, chaps with turboprops and chaps with both, not to speak of some who have jets on order and are now beginning to wonder how they are going...
...vote for the NDEA disclaimer affidavit is a vote for thought control," Dean Monro told an audience of 50 freshmen yesterday afternoon in the Union Common Room...