Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SUEZ. When Britain, France and Israel tried to seize the Suez Canal in 1956, the Security Council was paralyzed by British and French vetoes, and under the Uniting for Peace formula, the Assembly moved to send troops to patrol the Gaza Strip. The U.N. force thrust an impassive shoulder between Egyptian and Israeli combatants. Its continued presence may not have resolved Arab-Israeli differences (what could?), but today, the Gaza Strip is quiet...
Arbitrary & Illegal. At issue are not regular dues but special assessments voted for General Assembly peacekeeping operations in the Congo and the Gaza Strip. The delinquents argue that the Assembly never had the legal authority to vote the operations in the first place, and therefore they are not bound by Article 19 to pay for them...
...came about because of the Assembly's current quandary over Russia's nonpayment of dues for U.N. peacekeeping operations in the Congo and the Gaza Strip. To avoid a disastrous showdown over the U.S.'s demand that Russia pay up or be banned from further voting, the General Assembly had decided (TIME, Dec. 11) not to vote on anything until a compromise could be reached. But General Assembly President Alex Quaison-Sackley was faced with the need to get Assembly approval of four new nonpermanent Security Council members to replace those whose terms were expiring. Though Indonesia...
...tipped the scales this evening at 15 stone 3 lbs. and David at 14 stone 3 lbs. David's manager said this evening, 'the odd stone could make all the difference.' " The biblical newscast concludes with a brief theater review: "At the first night of The Gaza Strip, Samson, this year's Mr. Israel, brought down the house...
...billion-dollar budget, the amount was trivial enough. But behind it lurked the threat of an ugly showdown at the U.N. next fall. Most of the debt is on assessments voted by the General Assembly to pay for U.N. peace-keeping forces in the Congo and the Gaza Strip. Russia claims the assessments were illegal, has refused to pay for two years. But the U.N. Charter says that any nation whose payments are more than two years in arrears may lose its right to vote, and the U.S. is determined to see that the charter is en forced. The Kremlin...