Word: secretariats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dacca along a five-mile route pointedly lined with armed troops and cops. He ordered the arrest of more than 600 Reds and assorted troublemakers, clamped on press censorship, prohibited meetings of more than five persons and sent troops swarming through the local capital to take over the secretariat, railway depot, radio station, powerhouse and telegraph and phone offices. For the first time in months East Pakistan quieted down and from Huq's HQ not a sound was heard, only the pacing of the troops outside his house where he was sequestered in house arrest...
...native of Brisbane, Australia, Glover attended Brown University, where he received a Ph.B. degree, and Harvard, receiving both his M.B.A. and his Ph.D. here. At the Business School since 1942, he has served on the secretariat of the Strategic Bombing survey in 1945, and was for several years a special consultant to the United States Air Force in Washington...
When the returns began coming in, however, the authorities recoiled in alarm. Count after count showed non-Communists beating out Red candidates, and the Party considered some of the winners positively dangerous to the proper dialectical conduct of the union. Abruptly, the East German trade-union secretariat broke off the balloting. Reasons: "infiltration of class enemies . . . carelessness . . . political mismanagement" of the elections-in brief, too much freedom...
Bunche, who is director of the Trusteeship division of the United Nations Secretariat, admitted this acceleration might cause "a few difficulties at first" but insisted that the South will accept further elimination of segregation without much trouble...
Questioned on the Secretariat's present position toward the stymied Korean Political Conference, Bunche said "We are now hoping that something will come out of the Geneva conference. The germ of hope in this meeting lies in the fact that this is the first time the major powers concerned in the war have come together for high-level talks. Although the UN itself is not engaged in these talks, the Secretariat is hoping they will prove fruitful...