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...dictate the bounds of objective analysis of the organization. The frequently unreported successes of the UN should also be remembered. It has been credited with the peaceful settlement of 172 regional conflicts since 1945. For every Bosnian quagmire or Somalian fiasco dominating headlines, there exist the examples of Cambodia's post-civil war transition to normalcy and South Africa's first universal election, both of which were coordinated by the UN. In fact, the UN has enabled free and fair elections in forty-five countries in the past 50 years...
...angered. Genocide aptly describes mass murders in Bosnia or Cambodia, not AIDS in America. The federal government already spends more per capita on AIDS research than on any other disease, and those funding levels suffered no real decrease under a Republican Congress the past two years. Nevertheless, protests that, "not one life can be lost" drown out suggestions that our real priorities lie with diabetes, heart disease and cancer research, ailments more widespread and less well funded...
Miles, who lost both legs in a mortar explosion in Vietnam in 1969, directs a program that builds prostheses and wheelchairs for amputees in Cambodia, many of them victims of land mines. "Amputees are thought to be quite valueless by Cambodian society," he says. "Giving them a limb is a great thing. Even greater is giving them an opportunity to learn a trade and support their families...
...stop circus, with its even more bizarre array of characters and sideshows, continued until we graduated, accelerating in madness with the invasion of Cambodia and the killings at Kent State. By June 1971, we were exhausted by the sheer intensity of our rage, and so was Pusey, whose premature retirement began at our commencement...
...criticized the President for failing to take a stand to eliminate a weapon that kills more than 20,000 people, mostly civilian, every year, often long after a military confrontation has ended. Thousands of people continue to be maimed, for example, by mines put in place long ago in Cambodia, Afghanistan, and more recently in Bosnia and Croatia. "This is a failure of U.S. leadership but it will not stop the international effort to ban these weapons," said Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, who had lobbied Clinton on behalf of the ban. An international ban on land mines was rejected...