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aide: "The belligerents speak to each other only through guns or through us." Star & Wall. In addition to policing the borders, the U.N. must also feed, clothe and house or educate 1,075,000 Palestine Arab refugees crowded into the 25-mile-long Gaza Strip separating Israel and Egypt and neighboring Arab countries. In all, 18,740 U.N. personnel from a dozen countries are engaged in the area, and the operation now costs more than $60 million annually. Strung out in two-man teams in remote posts for 15 days at a stretch, the observers face daily risks, plus...
...prosaic moniker alongside such inspired noms de dishabille as Gaza Stripp, Helen Bedd, and the ecclesiastical ecdysiast. Norma Vincent Peel...
...Ruble. U Thant-who has earned Moscow's respect-chiefly wanted to discuss the fact that the U.N. is broke, largely because the Communist bloc has not put up a ruble toward the $140 million annual cost of the Congo and Gaza Strip policing operations...
They are also mad at some 70 nations who have a voice in the United Nations but who have not bothered to pay their share of U.N. operations in the Congo and the Gaza Strip-which are largely supported by U.S. funds...
...limited crises, serve as a highly convenient channel of force where (as in the Gaza Strip and the Congo) the use of national armies would be unpolitic or unsafe. Nor is its function as an international forum negligible, though much derided. "World opinion" may be an elusive force on whose wooing much effort can be wasted. But the U.N. remains a place where participants in a quarrel can be quickly summoned, where alarum can be raised, attitudes judged, responsibility or irresponsibility exposed, pressure exerted. In short, it is a place where, despite perils and failures, men and groups engage...