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Iraq was clearly on the defensive, though, and appealed last week to United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuellar for help in arranging a truce. Having provoked the fighting in September 1980 to regain what he claimed was lost territory, Saddam Hussein now wants out of the war on almost any terms that could be described as honorable. Iran so far has rejected all offers. Even before the present worldwide oil glut, Iraq's petroleum production was down from a peak of about 4 million bbl. per day to about 1 million bbl. per day. Iraqi...
Washington's skepticism about the U.N. has been seconded by the international organization's Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuellar. In a surprisingly pessimistic summary of the U.N's condition, Pérez de Cuellar, 62, a Peruvian career diplomat who began his five-year term as Secretary-General last January declared in his first annual report to the General Assembly, in September, that we are perilously close to a new international anarchy." The Secretary-General's main concern was that nations were increasingly ignoring the U.N. and its institutions, particularly the Security Council...
During last spring's Falkland Islands war, the Security Council condemned Argentina's invasion of Britain's remote South Atlantic dependencies, but Secretary-General Pérez de Cuellar failed in his efforts to avert bloodshed. Nor did the General Assembly dare to condemn the Soviet Union by name when it called for an end to Moscow's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan...
...Soviets' Salyut6 space station, clearly demonstrated, space technology has made huge strides since then, and many nations are eager to share in the benefits. Thus the conference's major theme: how to use for the good of all mankind what U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru archly called the tool of a privileged...
...establishing more satellite ground stations to improve global communications and finding ways of sharing earth-surveying data, the meeting turned into a verbal free-for-all. In gibes at the superpowers, especially the U.S., many of the 94 nations represented at the meeting voiced fears over what Perez de Cuellar described as the increasing and rapidly escalating militarization of outer space...