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Goldberg and delegates
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Quaison-Sackey, SOF: "Glad to open..." ends "...or meditation."
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Quaison-Sackey, U Thant on Rostrum, delegates bow heads
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Quaison-Sackey and U Thant
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Counting of ballots
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Quaison-Sackey, SOF: "His Excellency, Mr. Fanfani..." close "applause"
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Fanfani comes to rostrum, embraces Quaison-Sackey, takes president's seat
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Background: The U.N.General Assembly opened its 20th session tuesday (21 September) in a general atmosphere of harmony that ???aw the near-unanimous election of Foreign Minister Amintore Fanfani of Italy as President.

With the roll call vote on the Presidency, the Assembly ended a year-long paralysis over voting rights.The impasse has left it with a vast backlog of unfinished business.

The 57-year-old Fanfani was unopposed.But two votes were cast for former Yugoslav Foreign Minister Koa Popovic despite the fact that the had withdrawn from the race.Fanfani succeeds Alex Quaison-Sackey of Ghana.

The rest of the meeting was routine except for the admission of Singapore and the Maldive Islands to membership, bringing the U.N.rolls to 117 members.