Word: without
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from Norway's forthright and flamboyant Trygve Lie, U.N. members contentedly thought they were switching from hot to cool. Dag seemed safely competent and colorless. He still speaks with caution, but on accepting his second term as Secretary-General, he gave full notice that he was prepared, without a specific mandate, "to fill any vacuum" and provide for the "safeguarding of peace and security." Last year he explained candidly that the limitations of the U.N. made it necessary "to create a new executive responsibility somewhere." Clearly, Hammarskjold himself...
Despite the critics, the doubters, and everyone's legitimate forebodings, Hammarskjold continued to push ahead from one limited, carefully chosen diplomatic objective to the next. At week's end, without ruckus, members of his Swedish bodyguard symbolically took over from the Belgians the guard duty at Elisabethville airfield, where they first put down. Belgian commanders in Katanga agreed to start pulling their 7,000 troops back to a single base as more U.N. forces flew in this week. The Congo may remain just one jump ahead of chaos for some time to come, but Dag Hammarskjold had established...
Through all his weathervane shifts of mood, Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba has never shifted on one point: the Congo, he insists, is a single, unified nation of 14 million people. But with or without U.N. help, the odds against a unified Congo are enormous. In bustling Leopoldville, where 15-story office buildings rise only a few miles from huts on stilts, it was the dry season and customers on the terrace of the Hotel Regina sipped their beer in relative comfort, grateful for a temperature dip that had taken the thermometer down to the 80s. Upriver at Coquilhatville, astraddle...
...bitterness, Eyskens had no intention of leaving office without a fight. And by his open intervention in politics, which evoked uneasy memories of his headstrong father, ex-King Leopold, King Baudouin had aroused the resentment even of politicians opposed to Eyskens. At week's end, playing for time, Eyskens promised a Cabinet reshuffle, called Parliament back into session for a showdown confidence vote this week...
...Mateos could pay off some inherited government debts. Vallejo took the request as a sign of weakness and in March 1959 called a wildcat strike. Lopez Mateos cracked down hard, threw Vallejo and 2,600 other railwaymen into jail. Vallejo and about 500 strikers have been there ever since without trial. Ex-President Cardenas, still a hero to Mexico's masses, demanded "justice and comprehension" for them. Then Cardenas traveled to Fidel Castro's Cuba and returned so full of praise that leftist Mexican students, peasants and workers were roused to unruly recollections of the revolutionary days...