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Other Goals. From Washington, President Kennedy mobilized the skills of U.S. diplomacy to keep the Soviet Union from imposing on the U.N. its concept of a three-man secretariat-an unworkable form of executive that would forever cripple the organization. Survival of the U.N. as a world forum and as a useful instrument for keeping the peace was well worth struggling for. But there are other goals, carrying far higher priority. They could be defined simply...
...press for a permanent new Secretary-General, who is formally appointed by the Assembly but who must first get clearance in the veto-bound Security Council. There the Russians would inevitably climb into their troika-their insistent demand that the office of Secretary-General be replaced by a three-man, veto-bound U.N. executive, representing East, West and the neutrals. To make the point, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko already was repeating a little rhyme to reporters...
...Student Council last night chose a three-man executive committee to run its affairs until elections are held under the new Constitution, which will be submitted to the Council for approval in about five weeks...
Warchol had asked that executive power be left in the hands of the present executive committee, which he freely admitted to be only himself. However, the proposal of a three-man committee with a definite chairman was passed without dissent...
Before a breathless CBS-TV audience, Hearst Newspapers National Editor Frank Conniff and his editor in chief totted up the expense-account tariff for their "Task Force" crusades in Europe (TIME, June 30). On the three-man, three-week, 1955 Moscow junket alone, estimated Visiting Firebrand William Randolph Hearst Jr., the tab averaged $1,000 a day. "On the other hand," prompted Fellow Journeyman Conniff, "the caviar was good, and they had a certain liquid there that didn't hurt either...