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Thondup appeals to Asian and African UN members to back Tibetan cause, int; says he and Dalai Lama are distressed at their reluctance; charges Kuznetsov with misrepresentation and propaganda in his s to UN com; holds UN should appt comm to seek restoration of '14-51 conditions
inquiry bd confs; meets privately with USWA, indus reprs, Mitchell; Taylor int; holds Act inadequate, backs voluntary arbitration
2,802,154 NYC total is record for off-yr election; PPR linked; Nassau total is 650,764; other data; tables, NYC
prompt action on Wagner Charter revision proposal seen paving way for NYC collaboration with study
Pope indicates she will be beatified; her por
1959Anna Escobedo Cabral, American lawyer and politician, 42nd Treasurer of the United States[†]
Anna Escobedo Cabral is an American politician who served as the Unit Chief for Strategic Communications in the External Relations Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) from 2009 to 2018. Today, she and her husband serve as partners of the Cabral Group, a consulting and public policy firm. She also serves as an independent director for Navient, a member of the Comcast NBCU diversity council, and as an advisor to the Libra Group, and Valaurum. Her current nonprofit commitments include serving as chair of the BBVA Microfinance Foundation, chair of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, Treasurer of Lideramos, a national Latino organization focused on providing leadership training to grassroots community advocates, and member of the board of governors of Orange County Community Foundation. Prior to joining the IDB, Cabral served as the 42nd Treasurer of the United States from January 19, 2005, to January 20, 2009. She became the highest-ranking Latina in the George W. Bush administration after the resignation of Rosario Marin.
1959At the national congress of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in Peru, a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party who later form APRA Rebelde.[†]
APRA Rebelde was formed in 1959 as a splinter group of the Peruvian APRA. It was founded by a group that was expelled from APRA at a National Congress on October 12. The leader of the APRA Rebelde started orienting itself towards the radical Marxist left. In 1962, the group was refounded as the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR).
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]