Word: itu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tension last week Diplomats from 157 nations huddled in their seats or bantered uneasily across the room. They were awaiting the results of a secret ballot that could mean life or death tor one of the oldest cooperative agencies in the world, the United Nations-sponsored International Telecommunication Union (ITU), founded in 1865, and that could call into question the U.S. commitment...
Finally, as the tally was broadcast a palpable mood of relief swept through the hall. By a vote of 85 to 31, the delegates had adopted a British-inspired resolution that condemned Israel for its June 6 invasion of Lebanon. Far more important for the ITU, the resolution thwarted an explosive proposal, sponsored by Algeria and strongly supported by Libya, Iraq and other hard-line Arab states, that demanded Israel's expulsion from the nominally apolitical organization. The chief US representative at the meeting, Lawyer Michael Gardner, pronounced himself absolutely delighted" at the outcome Gardner had warned that passage...