Word: dispatching
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...Peace Cooperation Corps" that could be sent overseas in response to resolutions by the world organization. That notion appeared unexceptionable, since Japan has long been a strong advocate of the U.N.; yet the bill generated a furious debate. The reason: the proposed law would allow the Prime Minister to dispatch units of the armed forces to foreign soil for the first time since...
...nonaligned group agreed that the U.N. Secretary-General should dispatch a team of envoys on a fact-finding mission to the occupied territories. The Yemeni draft had called for the team also to recommend ways of ensuring the protection of Palestinians there, a proposal the U.S. successfully fought off. Washington does not want the U.N. directly involved in the management of the Palestinian problem...
...other hand, Ignatenko said the dispatch of Soviet troops to join the international force confronting Iraq "is not ruled out." He and other Soviet spokesmen, however, have laid down tough conditions: there must be a U.N. resolution authorizing the use of force; the troops must be designated U.N. troops serving under a U.N. flag. Finally, says Ignatenko, "the commander of the U.N. troops should not necessarily be American." That would be an extremely difficult condition for the U.S. to grant, since it has contributed the great bulk of the international force, but putting Soviet troops under an American commander would...
...Syria and its steel-fisted dictator, Hafez Assad. But he wanted to encourage Damascus to send more troops to the international effort in the gulf. His four-hour meeting with Assad was also intended to underscore for Arab nationalists that not all radicals side with Iraq. Assad agreed to dispatch 300 tanks and an estimated 15,000 soldiers to join the 3,000 men he has already sent to the gulf...
Conceivably, the U.N. could one day throw its umbrella over a new peacekeeping (i.e., Iraq-containment) force in the Middle East; it has already voted to dispatch 20,000 soldiers and civilians from various countries to police a prospective settlement in Cambodia. For some time, though, its primary tool to enforce its decisions will probably continue to be the embargo. Not long ago, such economic sanctions were considered useless. But that thinking is changing. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, formerly the loudest voice in the sanctions-never-succeed school, stated last week, "It is just becoming obvious that some...