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Though U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. George Bush is nominally in charge of that effort, the man who is really running the show is Secretary of State William Rogers. In waves of private meetings, he has personally pitched the U.S. policy of U.N. membership for both Peking and Taipei to no fewer than 90 foreign ministers. He has sought to emphasize, as he put it last week, that "a precedent might be created on the question of expulsion which would weaken the U.N. as an organization...
Currently, the U.S. strategy involves two resolutions that Bush is expected to put before the General Assembly this week. One calls simply for the admission of Peking to the General Assembly and to China's permanent seat on the Security Council, plus continued membership for Taipei in the General Assembly. The other resolution, the key element in the U.S. strategy, requires that any proposal concerning the expulsion of a member be treated as an "important question" necessitating passage by a two-thirds majority. That would make it nigh impossible for Taipei's enemies to muster enough votes...
RONALD L. BUSH...
...discussed at the same time in the General Assembly. When the vote was taken in the General Committee, which recommends the Assembly's agenda, the U.S. was defeated 12 to 9 (with three abstentions). The U.S. had expected to win that first test, but as Ambassador George Bush said, the vote "doesn't change a thing." To offset the defeat, he could point to Japan's decision, reached only 24 hours before, to co-sponsor the U.S. resolution to admit Peking but retain Taipei's seat...
...argue that the matter of Taipei's expulsion is an "important question" calling for a two-thirds vote of the 127-member Assembly rather than a simple majority. But it is having great difficulty lining up support for this position, despite such efforts as U.N. Ambassador George Bush's meeting last week with U.N. envoys from 35 member states. As a British diplomat explained, "We don't question U.S. intentions on this matter, but the practical effect of the U.S. resolution would be to keep Peking out because Peking will not come in while Taiwan is here...