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Buckley soon learned the U.N. folkways: that the Soviet Union's Yakov Malik has "a deeply cultivated propensity for lying"; that the U.N.'s reputation as "the densest collection of oratorical bores in the history of the world" owes most to Saudi Arabia's Jamil Baroody; that racism at the U.N. is what white does to black, never the reverse. He found that the U.S. is excessively concerned about not giving diplomatic offense and that around the U.N., the convention is simply to ignore Soviet infractions against the organization's stated ideals. As a result official...
Both Lebanon and Cyprus refused to allow the jetliner to land, and the terrorists finally ordered it to put down at Damascus. Syrian Air Force Commander Major General Naji Jamil tried to talk the skyjackers into releasing their hostages "for humanitarian reasons and for the sake of Arab patriotism." When the guerrillas refused, the Syrians refueled the plane, provided food and treated an injured terrorist for a head wound...
...disrupts debate. But he may also be responsible for preventing untold numbers of colleagues from dying of sheer boredom. What is more, he knows the ropes at the United Nations General Assembly better than anybody else, for he has been there since its first meeting in 1946. He is Jamil M. Baroody, 66, a Lebanese-born New Yorker who is Saudi Arabia's U.N. representative...
...part of two days kept an emotional Middle East debate going. Demanding the floor, Malik raged about what he saw as U.S. reluctance to take action against the J.D.L. It was time, he sputtered, for the U.S. "to restore order in its own house." Then Saudi Arabia's Jamil Baroody piped up. Baroody, a 25-year U.N. veteran whose opinion is shared by a growing number of his colleagues, charged that life for U.N. delegates was "becoming untenable in this city of New York. We cannot go on like this." Then he launched into an attack, highly unusual...
...dissenting votes in the secret ballot went to Chile's José Piñera and Saudi Arabia's Jamil Baroody. The irrepressible Baroody often gets one vote, and there is a growing suspicion that he casts it for himself...