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...said then, "we have found a way to use military men for peace instead of war." It was Bunche, however, who advised Secretary-General U Thant in May 1967 that the Secretary-General had no legal alternative but to accede to Egypt's demand that the force be withdrawn. Many critics maintain that if Bunche and Thant had stalled the Egyptians and fought harder to keep the blue-helmeted troops on hand, the Six-Day War might have been averted...
Another proposal withdrawn Friday would have changed regulations dealing with appearances before local and appeal boards...
...months after Chappaquiddick he was painfully withdrawn, but that period seems long since ended. Now he jokes easily. Recently, on a flight between Chicago and Salt Lake City, he was confronted in the aisle by a woman carrying a baby. Kennedy grinned and told the reporters with him, "Hey, get this." He elaborately faked kissing the baby, with a loud smooch an inch from the infant's cheek. Then he collapsed laughing in his seat...
...would play a major role in the selection of his successor. His favorite was Arnold Pinkney, the black School Board President who had served as Stokes' administrative assistant. Because most of Cleveland's black political leaders, led by the Mayor and his brother, U.S. Congressman Louis Stokes, had withdrawn from the county Democratic Party because of the absence of blacks at the policy-making level. Pinkney chose to run as an Independent. The feeling prevailed that he would stand a much better chance in a three-man race where the white vote would be split...
...unspeakable villain. He has been the target of oblique attacks by the party journal Red Flag, which has been denouncing "political swindlers" and "criminal plots" hatched by "ranking leaders." There are other unmistakable signs. Copies of the Little Red Book of Mao's quotations have been withdrawn from libraries and bookshelves all over China because Lin wrote the introduction...