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The article presents information on General Assembly of the United Nations. The United Nations opened its 15th annual fall Spectacular-- the General Assembly on September 20, 1960. The world organization feared for its survival, as it struggled with the problem of responding to the Congo's call for help on July 12, 1960- responding, that is, within the framework of the U.N. charter and the mounting opposition of the Soviet Union. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold made it clear, on several occasions, that if his handling of the Congo crisis were censured by the U.N., he would go. And there was little doubt in anyone's mind that much of the prestige and usefulness of the world body would go with him.