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Approval of this program as the party's policy was by simple and enthusiastic voice vote. Harmony was not so easily attained in the matter of adopting the party charter for 1980 and be yond. As the convention gathered mo mentum and delegates of like mind began to caucus, Strauss started worrying that the compromises that he had so laboriously and skillfully put together for the party charter would come apart at the last moment. The most ex plosive issue in what Strauss called "a political minefield" was how explicitly the party charter should guarantee the representation and vote...
...receding tides of colonialism have altered the U.N.'s size and character. Founded in 1945 with 51 charter nations, the U.N. now has 138 member countries. The advent of so many fledgling Third World nations has caused a kind of transmogrification of the U.N., which now seems bent, as U.S. Ambassador John Scab' said last week, on establishing a new "tyranny of the majority...
Added to this, there is now a new threat -an arbitrary disregard of U.N. rules, even of its Charter." Though he did not specifically mention his complaints, Scali's concerns were clear...
...Jewish Agency was recognized by the League of Nations in 1922 and by the United Nations in 1947 to represent the views of the Jewish community then settled in Palestine. Why, therefore, is it illogical or contrary to the principles of the U.N. Charter to recognize the Palestinian Arabs, natives of the land in question, and to grant them the right to speak to the international community...
...controversial party charter--the first constitution ever written and ratified by a national party--several influential Democrats representing conservative labor and sections of the South left Kansas City very bitter. In their view the party had not listened to all the voices within its membership, but only those that came from organized caucuses of blacks, women, Latins, youth and even state governors and mayors...