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Three of the university's best-known experts on China yesterday endorsed the U.N.'s decision to expel Taiwan and seat the People's Republic of China...
...other resolution, the key element in the U.S. strategy, requires that any proposal concerning the expulsion of a member be treated as an "important question" necessitating passage by a two-thirds majority. That would make it nigh impossible for Taipei's enemies to muster enough votes to expel the regime...
...booted out. If these threats are carried out, the U.N. would be destroyed. Nixon claims to have no control over the Republican Senate caucus--just as he claimed to have no hand in the Vietnam elections. In his U.N. speech, Rogers put forth the new proposition that to expel Chiang's group from the China seat would evict a "member nation" of 14 million people. He warned that this would set a precedent. "The path of expulsion is perilous. To open it for one would be to open it for many...
...formal pretense that Chiang Kai-shek's regime on Taiwan is the legitimate government of China, Washington is reluctant to let a longstanding ally down-or to be seen to do so-and is also concerned that the U.N. might set an unfortunate precedent should it expel a well-behaved charter member. More important, the U.S. wishes to prevent any bandwagon rush to Peking, thereby giving many smaller nations time to adjust to the new triangular world in which the U.S. will be conducting big-power diplomacy with both Moscow and Peking. As it turned out, the U.S. lost...
...trip, attempted to justify his visit by declaring, "If we do not agree and we do not meet, how are we going to resolve our problem?" But the visit still evoked considerable antagonism in much of Black Africa. Tanzania's government paper, The Standard, urged the O.A.U. to expel Malawi, adding that the trip would "further alienate Banda from all those who believe in the equality of man." In Kenya, the Daily Nation declared that Banda's visit, if followed by those of other African leaders, would "set into motion a train of diplomatic events that may well...