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After months of public haggling, the U.N. Security Council last week succumbed to Russian blackmail and voted in two new members: Mauritania and the Mongolian People's Republic (Outer Mongolia...
...General Assembly. West Africa's Sierra Leone (pop. 2,500,000; area 27,940 sq. mi.) became the U.N.'s 100th member, just before the Security Council settled down near by to fight over Russia's package deal on two other membership applications, those of Mauritania and Outer Mongolia-a knotty problem that might affect the fate of Red China's bid for admission later...
...majority Washington needs for its China maneuver depends on the votes of at least a dozen new African nations who have proposed an intricate bargain in exchange for their support. They want West Africa's little Mauritania to get membership this session. Cleverly, Moscow enters the picture with a threat to veto Mauritania unless one of its own pets, Outer Mongolia, a puppet republic embedded in Red China, gets in the club at the same time. So the Africans have told the U.S.: Accept both Outer Mongolia and Mauritania as U.N. members, and we will vote with you against...
During the feverish, all-night attempt to draft a final communiqué, Indonesia's Sukarno begged the conference to support his demand for West Irian; Morocco's King Hassan II urged his claim against Mauritania. Nehru's coalition vetoed mention of either. An Arab resolution condemning Israel was knocked out by Burma's U Nu, a good friend of Ben-Gurion...
...recognition of the puppet state, on the ground that an embassy in remote Ulan Bator would prove a valuable listening post for picking up intelligence of the Communist world. They also favor a deal to admit Outer Mongolia to the U.N. in exchange for a Soviet agreement to admit Mauritania, on Morocco's southern border. This. they argue, would win gratitude for the U.S. among the new African nations. Chen warned the President that Nationalist China might veto the admission of Outer Mongolia...