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...Responsible? The incident prompted both an ugly wrangle in the U.N. and an explosive protest from Moscow, which warned ominously that it might some day decide that diplomatic activity in the U.S. has "become impossible." Unimpressed by Washington's unusually vigorous expressions of official regret, Soviet Ambassador Yakov Malik interrupted the somnolent China debate the day after the incident and for the better 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...
...Unusual Invective. Apart from the question of China's admission, the dominant issue was the perennially deadlocked Middle East. The Security Council unanimously passed a resolution urging Israel to desist from its attempts to change the status of Jerusalem. Soviet Delegate Yakov Malik accused Israel of fascism and racism for building Israeli housing on what had been Arab land. If the plight of Soviet Jews improved, Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tek-oah countered, "the voice of the Soviet Union would be heard with greater respect." At that Malik warned, "Don't stick your long nose into our garden. History...
...26th General Assembly of the United Nations opened last week in an atmosphere of urgency rarely shown by that body in the past. In its first formal order of business, the Assembly elected Foreign Minister Adam Malik of Indonesia its President, and admitted three ministates, Qatar, Bahrain and Bhutan,* raising the number of member nations to 130. Then the delegates got down to business: a procedural test of strength over two U.S. resolutions to admit China to both the Assembly and the Security Council but retain a seat in the General Assembly for the Nationalist regime on Taiwan...
...important topic on the agenda, along with such perennial problems as the Middle East and such current troubles as the civil war in Pakistan. But when the 26th session of the General Assembly convenes in New York this week, under the presidency of Indonesia's Adam Malik, the delegates will be preoccupied with an even more historic matter: the admission of Mao Tse-tung's China to the United Nations...
...away. The failures of Chinese-supported insurgencies in Indonesia and Malaysia have considerably deflated China's reputation as an international troublemaker. Moreover, since the end of the Cultural Revolution with all its attendant hysteria and xenophobia, China has steadily moved toward what Indonesia's Foreign Minister Adam Malik approvingly calls "sensible moderation...