Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Hidden away behind the now-sagging raffia walls of his palace, King Lukengu himself is a broken man. He looks far older than his 60 years (as a man with 800 wives well might), and his rheumatism has grown so bad that a manservant has to raise him to a...
Fortnight ago Dag Hammarskjold warned the U.N.'s 99 member nations that his treasury was "virtually empty." He got respectful enough sympathy from everyone else, but as usual, it was the U.S. that quietly put up the $20 million, which should carry the U.N. through to the end of...
The advance from the U.S. was earmarked for U.N. funds to aid underdeveloped countries, but the U.N. was free to use it as a stopgap to foot the rising bill for the United Nations' Congo operation, which is currently running at $10 million a month. The Russians are already...
The Russians let the U.S. pick up 48% of the cost of the Children's Fund while they paid a mere 2.45%, paid only a grudging $2,000,000 to the U.N.'s Technical Assistance Fund as against the U.S.'s $30 million. They declined to contribute...
Excluding the still-undetermined cost of the Congo operation, the U.S. in 1960 found itself paying $116 million, or 38% of the U.N.'s total expenditures of $300 million. Russia's total contribution: $17 million.