Word: backlog
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...independent actor, and simply represented the sum of its member states.) International diplomats may have been inclined to bite their tongues through Helms?s speech, because the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman effectively controls the U.N. purse strings - the Clinton administration was unable to pay its billion-dollar backlog of unpaid dues to the international body without striking a deal with Helms. "Inviting Helms to speak to the council was a brilliant move on the part of U.S. ambassador Richard Holbrooke," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "He's cultivating Congress and trying to promote a dialogue rather than...