Word: truce
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...smile of victory on Rockefeller's face guaranteed that Rocky would endorse the party's platform and campaign for the party's ticket, helping Nixon's chances of carrying New York, with its hefty 45 electoral votes. And by working out a truce with Rockefeller, Nixon had tugged loose his restraining anchor in the Eisenhower Administration; barred by his position as Vice President from speaking out freely on issues, he had let Nelson Rockefeller speak...
Question-Mark Emblem. The New York meeting brought about a pregnant truce in as strange a war as the Republican Party had ever seen. It started in October 1958, when Rocky was running for Governor in his first try for elective office. He was so ambitiously bent on projecting his own rather than a party image that a top Rockefeller backer urged Nixon to cancel a scheduled TV speech in New York City lest he spoil that image. Nixon came to New York and had a well-publicized breakfast with Rocky...
...organized the first world police force to keep order in the Middle East. Never making statements from which he would have to retreat, never committing others to public positions that they could not defend, Hammarskjold has cautiously moved behind a cloud of equivocal words to win an Arab-Israeli truce that has lasted four years. By establishing a representative as a "U.N. presence" in Laos, he stifled Communist infiltration from North Viet...
...Leopoldville within 24 hours. From Sweden, Ireland, Liberia and the Mali Federation, he got promises of enough more troops to swell the U.N. force to 12,000 men by the end of the month. From Jerusalem, Hammarskjold dispatched lean-jawed Swedish Major General Carl Carlsson von Horn, 47, U.N. Truce Enforcement Chief along the Arab-Israeli borders, to take com mand in the Congo. To meet an impending public-health disaster created by the departure of all the Belgian doctors, Hammarskjold called on the World Health Organization and the International Red Cross to "stage a crash operation." From 10 capitals...
Last week change threatened Lebanon's long political truce. Saeb Salam, a leader in the 1958 rebellion, had won a comeback victory in last month's parliamentary elections, was demanding appointment as Premier. All seemed settled when the lame-duck Cabinet members presented themselves at the palace to resign. President Chehab had a surprise for them. He announced his own resignation, effective immediately. "I have done my duty; my conscience is clear," he declared, and talked of a long vacation on the Riviera...