Word: charter
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Maceroni was originally fired from her $150-per-week post because she claimed the newspaper's charter gave her full responsibility for editorial and advertising policy. Members of the Publications Board disagreed, saying the editor did not have the power to make advertising decisions...
...largest gathering of world leaders in history--some 80 heads of state and government, including President Reagan, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India --congregate at U.N. headquarters in New York City to honor the 40th anniversary of the ratification of the U.N. Charter. Reagan and about 25 other leaders are expected to sit down together on Wednesday at a diplomatically designed round table in the delegate lounge for what may be the ultimate power lunch. Throughout the week, the visiting potentates will deliver uplifting speeches and debate such pressing matters as arms control...
...that greeted the birth of the U.N. during the last days of World War II. Ashamed that Washington's refusal to join the League of Nations after World War I had doomed that earlier bid for collective security, American leaders lavished praise on the new global body. The U.N. Charter "can be a greater Magna Carta," intoned John Foster Dulles, a delegate to the San Francisco conference...
Under the charter, the responsibility for keeping peace lies with the Security Council, whose permanent members are the five wartime allies--the U.S., the U.S.S.R., Britain, France and China.* The cold war, however, quickly deadlocked the meetings, as the Soviet Union routinely vetoed U.S. initiatives. When North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950, Moscow happened to be boycotting the Council. Only because of that Soviet blunder was the U.N. free to raise a force, mostly U.S.-manned and U.S.-led, to drive out the Communist invaders. Since then, the U.N. has never forcefully intervened in a war to restore peace...
...steam. Former Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick has called it a "Turkish bath." Laments Brian Urquhart, Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs: "There are moments when I feel that only an invasion from outer space will reintroduce into the Security Council that unanimity and spirit which the founders of the charter were talking about...