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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...
Other U.S. allies echo Kosciusko-Morizet's view that the organization, no matter how troubled it may be, still serves a purpose. Says a Bonn-based diplomat: "We do not underestimate the U.N.'s value as a peace-keeping force. We would not have had 30 years of peace in [Western Europe] without the U.N." British officials, who strongly agree with the Reagan Administration that U.N. agencies have become far too infected with Third World politics, particularly over the Arab-Israeli issue, feel that the U.N. remains a valuable diplomatic umbrella...
Imagine a visiting foreign diplomat looking over his morning Jerusalem Post and seeing, just below the flag--and at the top of every page--the word "destroy." Every office, every classroom in the country would have a calendar on the wall with a bold "destroy" at the top of each page. This is hardly the best image for the troubled Israelis to convey...
...government bonds to help finance the budget was abandoned after lagging exports and the world recession helped swell the 1982 deficit to $40.1 billion. At the same time, Suzuki's attempts to hold down spending stirred the wrath of the country's largest labor federation. Said a diplomat in Tokyo: "Suzuki simply couldn't deliver...
Opponents of economic sanctions argue that such measures have been ineffectual and often counterproductive in the past. Much evidence to support that view can be found in Economic Sanctions (Harvard University Center for International Affairs; $9.95 paperback), a timely new historical survey by British Diplomat Robin Renwick. The book dispassionately examines numerous episodes of economic warfare, including the League of Nations trade restrictions against Italy following its 1935 invasion of Ethiopia and the U.S. embargo of Cuba after Castro came to power in 1959. As a former head of the Rhodesia department of the British Foreign Office, Renwick brings particular...