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By MAX ARRELSON UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.AP— A Western-supported resolution was laid before the U.N. General Assembly emergency meeting to day proposing that Secretary Gen eral Dag Hammarskjold be given a new Middle East peace mission. The new plan was whipped into final form in a busy weekend of conferences between the chief sponsor, Dept. Foreign Minister Hans Engen of Norway, and other key delegates. The United States was not a sponsor, but informed quarters said the United States would give the proposal full support. The text was understood to give Hammarskjold the job of working out security arrangements in Le banon and Jordan to make pos sible withdrawal of U.S. and Brit ish forces. It also was reported to call on the secretary general to make studies on two of President Eisen hower’s Middle East peace pro posals — creation of a stand-by peace force and establishment of a regional economic foundation. The resolution reportedly failed Sunday night to win Arab-Asian support. A diplomat said some Arab and Asian countries had objected that it did not say specifically that the United States and Britain should withdraw their troops. Engen has said, however, that he would have a ‘nice group” of cosponsors in the 81-nation As sembly. The Soviet Union already has introduced a resolution which would have the Assembly recom mend that the United States and Britain withdraw their troops without delay. The resolution also calls for strengthening the U.N. (Continued On Page 8 Column 7) SHARING THEIR GRIEF — Rock ‘n’ roll singer: Pvt. Elvis Presley and his father appear numbed in Memphis, Tenn., over the death of the singer’s mother, Mrs. Gladys Presley, 42. Mrs. Presley Who was in a hospital for a liver ailment, apparently died of a heart, attack.
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Pulaski Southwest Times
Pulaski, Virginia, US
Mon, Aug 18, 1958
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