Cynthia Brzak [is] an American who has worked for the past 26 years at the U.N. refugee office in Geneva, Switzerland.
Despairing of a U.N. system that operates immune to any normal jurisdiction of law, Brzak, who two years ago brought an in-house allegation of sexual harassment, is now going outside the institution to ask for a hearing at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Running to 180 pages, the pleadings highlight the fundamental problem that senior U.N. officials enjoy the privileges of sovereign immunity, but because the U.N. is not a sovereign state, they are spared the accountability that tends to come—at least in democracies—with running a national government.
Fanny Blankers-Koen was the star of the Games, winning four gold medals on the track.
Ilona Elek[?] (Hungary) and JanBrzak[?] (Czechoslovakia) successfully defended their Olympic titles they won 12 years prior.
In field hockey, India and Pakistan first participated as independent nations, and the homeland of the sport, Great Britain, played the triple Olympic champions from India for the first time - and lost.
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