Word: calling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Beer & Orange Pop. When Advance Man Bunche arrived at Elisabethville in his white U.N. Convair, only two Belgian officials and an honor guard were on hand to greet him. Tshombe pointedly waited at his official residence for Bunche's call. There, sipping beer while Tshombe drank orange pop, Bunche argued earnestly for 2½ hours. Then Tshombe called in the press to declare airily: "I am confident no United Nations troops will enter Katanga." If they should, he went on, "the U.N. will bear a heavy responsibility and will provoke a conflict bringing discredit on it in the eyes...
...even to a jungle skirmish. For hours after hearing Bunche's report, Dag pondered the strength of Tshombe's hand. At last, barely six hours before the first contingent was due to take off, Hammarskjold canceled orders for U.N. troops to enter Katanga. Cabling ahead to call a special meeting of the Security Council, Hammarskjold boarded a plane for New York...
...mind. The Red leader plans to visit "brave little Cuba," and has been angling -unsuccessfully so far-for invitations to visit other Latin American nations, particularly Mexico. By dropping in at the General Assembly-even if no other chief of state shows up-Khrushchev might make his Cuban call seem a less provocative gesture...
...settlement houses for slum dwellers that have stirred Italy's conscience, believes that Sicily should import a team of U.S.-trained sociologists to study the roots of Sicily's distress so that economic aid might be made more effective. Most of Sicily's own spokesmen simply call for that standard 20th century nostrum: rapid industrial development of the island...
Whatever happens, the millionaires do not call the cops. Last April, after Biscuit King Lee Gee Chong was snatched from his limousine only 100 yards from his home, the family called in the police and then missed the rendezvous with the gang; Lee's wire-trussed body turned up a few days later in a Chinese cemetery. Since then, probably twice as many kidnapings have actually taken place as have been reported...