Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...formally claimed any part of Antarctica, nor has it formally recognized any other nation's claim. The treaty presumably removes Antarctica from the cold war, creates a zone of peace in the world. Pleased with Russia's cooperation in drafting the treaty, the State Department hopes to set a precedent for inspected arms control in less remote parts of the earth and in outer space as well...
...Henry Cabot Lodge chose as his U.N. deputy seven years ago was someone he had known since boyhood: James J. (for Jeremiah) Wadsworth. This week, as Lodge got set to hit the campaign trail, James Wadsworth, 55. flew home from Geneva prepared to succeed Lodge at the U.N. for the remaining five months of the Eisenhower Administration...
...consent, generally set at 16 to 18 years, ranges from 12 in Alabama to 21 in Tennessee...
...slim, sandy-haired Hammarskjold marched past a Katanga honor guard, a crowd of several hundred Belgians and Africans set up a cry of "Down with the United Nations." At the sight of the 240 Swedish troops,* the U.N. advance guard who, Dag said, were under "my exclusive, personal authority," the crowd jeered again...
...Hammarskjold as the "chief of an international supergovernment exclusively at the service of the Afro-Asian countries that have sworn to humiliate and humble Westerners.'' One wing of French opinion regards Katanga as a dangerous precedent. What if Algeria got its independence, and the European colons set up a secessionist state along the Algerian coast? Would U.N. troops fly in to guarantee all Algeria to the Moslems...